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Topic: Borneo campaign (1945)


  
 World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Japan soon invaded the Philippines and the British colonies of Hong Kong, Malaya, Borneo, and Burma, with the intention of seizing the oilfields of the Dutch East Indies.
The German forces in Italy surrendered on May 2, 1945 at General Alexander's headquarters and German forces in northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands surrendered on May 4; and the German High Command under Generaloberst Alfred Jodl surrendered unconditionally all remaining German forces on May 7 in Reims, France.
The last major offensive in the South West Pacific Area was the Borneo campaign of mid-1945, which was aimed at further isolating the remaining Japanese forces in South East Asia and securing the release of Allied prisoners of war.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Borneo campaign (1945)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Borneo campaign of 1945 was the last major Allied campaign in the South West Pacific Area, during World War II.
The campaign opened with a landing on the small island of Tarakan, off the north east coast on May 1.
This was followed on June 10 by simultaneous assaults in the north west, on the island of Labuan and the coast of Brunei.
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 Burma Campaign: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It was the largest seizure of enemy-held territory to date in the Burma campaign and was primarily due to the Ledo Chinese divisions lead by Stilwell.
The battle of kohima was a battle of the burma campaign in world war ii, fought around the town of kohima in northeast india from april 4 to june...
The british twelfth army was formed on may 28, 1945 to take control of operations in burma from the fourteenth army, which was being withdrawn to plan for...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bu/burma_campaign.htm   (5195 words)

  
 Articles - History of Australia since 1901   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It was followed by Australian-led amphibious assaults against Japanese bases in Borneo (see Borneo campaign (1945).
In 1949 the wartime Labor government (led after Curtin´s death in 1945 by Ben Chifley) was defeated by a Liberal government headed by Menzies, who became Australia´s longest-serving prime minister and the dominant figure in Australian politics until the 1960s.
In 1967 a referendum was held and overwhelmingly approved to amend the Constitution, removing discriminatory references and giving the national parliament the power to legislate specifically for Indigenous Australians.
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 Edwin Mellen Pr - books from this publisher (ISBNs begin with 0-7734)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A Bibliography of the Malayan Campaign and the Japanese Period in West Malaysia, Singapore and Borneo, 1941-1945
The Political Unconscious of the Fantasy Sub-Genre of Romance
Slavs in Germany: The Sorbian Minority and the German State Since 1945
www.books-by-isbn.com /0-7734   (3077 words)

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