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Indonesia in World War II

  • Western New Guinea campaignThe Allied command set a clear goal for early 1944. They needed to bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions in the Pacific theater.
  • Borneo campaignOn the 16th of December 1941, Japanese troops landed at Sarawak. A single battalion of British Indian troops fought a delaying action over several weeks.
  • Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity SphereIn the autumn of 1872, United States minister to Japan Charles DeLong explained to U.S. General Charles LeGendre that he had been urging the Government of…