Word: labuan
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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Island & Thumb. One force-including mechanized Commandos-took Labuan Island, key to the harbor, from a Japanese garrison of 500. 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...
...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...
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