Battle of Tarakan may refer to two actions in the Pacific campaign of World War II, on the island of Tarakan, off the north-east coast of Borneo:
Battle of Tarakan (1942), January 11–12, 1942, the Japanese assault on the island, defeating Allied forces there.
Battle of Tarakan (1945), May 1–25, 1945, the first phase of the Allied campaign to re-take Borneo.
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BattleofTarakan may refer to two actions in the Pacific campaign of World War II, on the island ofTarakan, off the north-east coast of Borneo: Battle...
Tarakan is an island and co-extensively the sole city within the Indonesian province of North Kalimantan. The island city is the largest urban area in...
coast of Borneo. The airport was the main Allied objective during the BattleofTarakan (1945). The airport is planned to be a transit hub for people from...
position during the BattleofTarakan in May 1945. He was 22 and serving as a corporal in the 2/3rd Pioneer Battalion at the time of his death. Born in...
followed six weeks later by the Battleof Labuan, and concluded with the Battleof Balikpapan. The purpose of capturing Tarakan was to establish airfields...
the Schouten Islands), in the Moluccas (on Morotai), and in Borneo (on Tarakan and at Balikpapan). US support and supplies to the NICA virtually ended...
locations: Tarakan, Labuan, North Borneo and Balikpapan. Guerilla operations were also carried out by Dayak tribesmen and small numbers of Allied personnel...
over the strip. At the end of the battleofTarakan the Perth Sunday Times Lieutenant K. McKitrick appeared on the front page of the 20 May 1945 edition...
September, effectively declaring naval war on Germany and Italy in the Battleof the Atlantic. In the Pacific Theater, there was unofficial early US combat...
Operation Crusader and then the Gazala battles in early summer of 1942. Around twenty-five took part in the battle as mine-clearing Matilda Scorpion mine...
commencing with the BattleofTarakan. The majority of combat troops were Australian, although the Free Dutch Forces provided a company of Ambonese infantry...
the Pacific War, the Borneo campaign opened with the beginning of the BattleofTarakan. Born: Rita Coolidge, singer, in Lafayette, Tennessee Died: Joseph...
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