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Borneo Campaign

Borneo Campaign (1945)
Part of World War II
Borneo Campaign CMH.jpg
A map showing the progress of the Borneo Campaign
Date 1 May – 15 August, 1945
Location Borneo
Result Allied victory; Japanese pushed further from Australia
Belligerents
Australia Australia
 United States
 Netherlands
 United Kingdom
 Empire of Japan
Commanders and leaders

United States Douglas MacArthur
Australia Leslie Morshead

United States Thomas Kinkaid
Michiaki Kamada
Baba Masao
Strength
35,000 15,000
Casualties and losses

2,100 casualties

  • 568 killed
10,000

United States Douglas MacArthur
Australia Leslie Morshead

2,100 casualties

The Borneo Campaign of 1945 was the last major Allied campaign in the South West Pacific Area during World War II. In a series of amphibious assaults between 1 May and 21 July, the Australian I Corps, under Lieutenant General Leslie Morshead, attacked Japanese forces occupying the island. Allied naval and air forces, centred on the U.S. 7th Fleet under Admiral Thomas Kinkaid, the Australian First Tactical Air Force and the U.S. Thirteenth Air Force also played important roles in the campaign. They were resisted by Imperial Japanese Navy and Army forces in southern and eastern Borneo, under Vice-Admiral Michiaki Kamada, and in the north west by the Thirty-Seventh Army, led by Lieutenant-General Baba Masao.


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