Word: borneo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven days Allied planes and naval units sowed high explosives around Borneo, in the southern end of General MacArthur's theater. Then from Tokyo came a voluble description of action. An Allied convoy, including a battleship, cruisers, destroyers and 50 other small warships massed off Brunei Bay, began bombarding Labuan Island, guarding the bay's entrance. The landing which followed, said Tokyo, was made with "about a division of troops." From Canberra came confirmation that men of the Australian Ninth Division had gone ashore in British North Borneo. Brunei Bay offered the Allies a fine fleet anchorage...
Tokyo radio also chattered nervously about the other side of northern Borneo, and reported the area around the city of Sandakan receiving increasing Allied naval attention...
...months Allied bombers have been working over Borneo, where the Japanese sit hopelessly on some of the world's highest-grade oil deposits. On May 1 Australian troops landed on Tarakan Island, just off Borneo's northeast coast, where they are still fighting Japanese...
...Borneo's Tarakan Island last week Dutch oilfield engineers and technicians went ashore close behind the attacking Australians. With them they carried oilfield tools and equipment shipped under Lend-Lease from...
...closest friend; they were fellow Indianans, fellow Washington reporters; and, as managing editor of Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, Miller was Ernie's boss for 10 years. Last week, he took over the assignment on which his friend had died. His first columns, of the landing on Borneo, began humbly: "I'm not going to try to write like Ernie. All I can do is write like Miller...