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- When
- 1 Jul 1945
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 1.27° S, 116.85° E
- Description
- 1945 battle of World War II
- War
- World War II
Battle of Balikpapan (1945)
1945 battle of World War II
The Battle of Balikpapan was the concluding stage of Operation Oboe, the campaign to liberate Japanese-held British and Dutch Borneo. The landings took place on 1 July 1945. The Australian 7th Division, composed of the 18th, 21st and 25th Infantry Brigades, with a small number of Netherlands East Indies KNIL troops, made an amphibious landing, codenamed Operation Oboe Two, a few miles north of Balikpapan.
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