Word: borneo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombed, then occupied western Borneo's port of Pontianak on the South China Sea. He completed his occupation of Balikpapan on the east coast of Borneo. He hurled bombs, then troops at the Indie's No. 2 naval base, Amboina in the Moluccas. The brave, brown Amboinese met the enemy with skill at marksmanship and the bayonet. But they were too few and they lacked both naval and air support. The Dutch sadly announced that demolition squads, long trained for just such preventive waste, had wrecked every useful thing in Amboina...
...down three landing parties on the northern handle of Celebes, from which he may well establish some sort of control over sea traffic in the Straits of Macassar and Molucca Strait to the east and west of Celebes. He has also grabbed the little Dutch island of Tarakan (off Borneo), where the oil flows from the wells so pure that it can be pumped into the fuel bunkers of ships without refining...
...week's end he had made four landings in the Dutch archipelago. His troops got ashore at Tarakan (see map), an island off the oil-rich northeast coast of Borneo, the Indies' richest oil center. He pushed in under cruiser protection during the night, was met by the local defense force and by Indies Army bombers...
Japanese troops also got ashore at three points on Minahassa, the thin, eastward-reaching upper handle of Celebes. Here the Jap came by sea and by parachute. He was already in British Sarawak, on the north coast of Borneo. Hein ter Poorten and his Army Air Force commander, thin-faced Major General L. H. van Oyen, promised that oil wells would be fired, refineries dynamited before the Jap got to them for the supplies he now needs more than anything in the world...
BATAVIA, N.E.I.--Everything useful to the Japanese, including shipping, was destroyed at Kuching, capital of Sarawak, Borneo, before the small garrison fell back to Dutch Borneo, a Sarawak Government European officer who was among the last to leave said on his arrival here today...