Word: tarakan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under the caption "Battle of the Pacific" in TIME [May 14] you printed: "In preparation the Australian First Tactical Air Force had flown the 1,400-mile round trip from Morotai to bomb Tarakan heavily. U.S. bombers of the Thirteenth Air Force added their...
...interest to know that the Fightin' Thirteenth has been engaged in the softening-up process of Tarakan and other Borneo targets for months preceding the invasion. The success of our bombing and strafing attacks was indicated by the inability of the barbarous Nips to make a stubborn defense. Their light ack-ack and hasty withdrawal to better prepared defense positions testifies to the accuracy and deadly action the Thirteenth Air Force gave the target...
...could concentrate on a much richer field-Samarinda, 36 miles away. With his 9th Division's firm hold on Tarakan and Brunei in the north (TIME, July 9), Morshead and his men, strategically at least, had secured Borneo for the Allies...
...that morning as we lay off the beach at Tarakan leaning on the rail, an enlisted man beside him, a letter in his hands. He was reading. Then he folded the letter deliberately, put his arm around the sailor's shoulders, and handed him the letter. A moment later he appeared beside me on the bridge. He lighted a cigaret...
...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...