Borneo 1942-1945 – Australians in the Pacific War

Description

Title: Borneo 1942-1945 – Australians in the Pacific War

Author: Stanley, Dr Peter

Condition: Near Mint

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: 2005

ISBN: 1920720502

Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 66 pages

Comments: The pictorial account of the Australian involvement in the Battle for Borneo during World War 2.

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 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.