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A Place Called Balikpapan – July 1, 1945

In the third major landing on Borneo, Australian Seventh Division veterans stormed ashore at Balikpapan on the south-east coast on Sunday morning after the most intensive naval and air bombardment of the South- West Pacific campaign. They quickly secured a firm bridgehead on the beaches east of the town and

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