Borneo Campaign

Borneo Campaign (1945)
Part of World War II
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  United States  Netherlands  United Kingdom	Empire of Japan
Commanders and leaders
Douglas MacArthur Leslie Morshead Thomas Kinkaid	Michiaki Kamada Baba Masao
Strength
35,000	15,000
Casualties and losses
2,100 casualties 568 killed	10,000

Douglas MacArthur
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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