Word: soerabaja
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threat to Java became more acute as the Japanese, against stubborn resistance, poured more men and planes into southern Sumatra and crushed the last Dutch resistance at Macassar, on Colobes Island just northeast of Java. The Nipponese also resumed bombing assaults on Soerabaja, Allied naval base on Java, and on Bali and Timor, east of Java...
...raid on Soerabaja--the third major assault on this vital base--cost the Nipponese five bombers out of 21 sent over...
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