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I suggest that you obtain a copy of
History of US Naval Operations in WW 2Vol. XIII by Samuel Eliot Morison
Pages 256-77 covers the campaign that you served in.
Richard V. Horrell WW 2 Connections.com
I fought in the battle of Borneo.The battle was fought in 1945. Although it was planned as a major phase of the Pacific War and several hundreds of Auistralians were killed it was overshadowed by the landing in the Philippines. the cynics say, and I agree with them that them, that it was Gen. Douglas Macarthur's and the Dutch colonial commercial interests, in the main the Dutch oil interests, especially the Shell oil company,to restore Dutch authority in what was then the Netherlands East Indies while Japan was on her knees.
I was a Sergeant in the 26th Australian Infantry Brigade. The 26th was a part of the Australian 9th Division that was regarded as Australia's foremost fighting unit as it hasd fought the Germans in North Africa, at Tobruk and Alamein. Only one brigade(about 35 000 troops) was used in the first amphibious landing on Tarakan Island, a rich oilfield. I was in the first wave to land as I was the "Brigadier's Wireless". the fleet was large and many US.ships , large and small took part. The only other country to supply troops was the Netherland East Indies who suppled a small company largely used for mopping-up ops.There was very little public awareness of the operations that included amphibious landings by Australians in Labuan (by the other two 9th. Div. units) and at Balikpapan ( the Australian 7th Division.
Douglas Macarthur is normally blamed for the "conspiracy of silence" that has been observed by Allied war historians about these battles that were as bloody and fierce as the landings in the Philippines and Okinawa. The jungle in which we fought was as dense and obstructive as any in the world. As soon as the battles were won, white clothed Dutch oil chiefs and colonial heads. The lack of information on these successful battles is maintained today,some 60 years ago.
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