Overcoming Geography, but still Struggling with Terrain: Balikpapan, 1945
Description
On 1 July 1945, following what one veteran later described as a ‘magnificent display of firepower’,1 troops of the 7th Australian Division landed on the shores of the eastern Borneo town of Balikpapan, now part of the province of East Kalimantan in Indonesia. It was the last major amphibious operation of the Second World War, the largest ever conducted under Australian command, and involved one of the longest direct projections of Australian force to secure a hostile shore. In a volume...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2015 |
Type: | Book chapter |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/261276 |
Book Title: | Geo-Strategy and War: Enduring Lessons for the Australian Army |
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