Word: brooketon
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...With it came Victoria town, two airfields, 4,000 Japanese bombs, rubber and coconut plantations. Stronger groups pounced on the thumb of land that poked up into the bay from the mainland -and on its satellite, Muara Island. They went in standing up and quickly took the hamlet of Brooketon, where tun-bellied Major General George Frederick Wootten, 250-lb. division commander, set up headquarters. Then they moved into Brunei town-a dismal conglomeration of dilapidated native shacks built on stilts over mud flats. Natives call it Daru'l Salam-Abode of Peace-and it showed little fight...
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