This is the complete order of battleofAllied and Japanese forces during the Borneo campaign of 1945. As the campaign was fought in three geographically separate areas and the same air and naval units supported more than one of these battles the order of battle is split into the three areas.
As it turned out these operations were different from those that had gone before. The minefields were heavier and, for the first time in any Pacific campaign, man-made obstacles had been laid off the beaches.
— Daniel E. Barbey (USN, ret.), MacArthur's Amphibious Navy (1969), p. 314
General Headquarters South West Pacific Area
General Douglas MacArthur
Southern Expeditionary Army Group (HQ at Saigon)
Count Hisaichi Terauchi
"The savagery of war was not limited to one side. About 20,000 Japanese ... were marched, unarmed, toward the small port of Beaufort... Without proper protection en route, they were attacked by native tribesmen and all but a few hundred were massacred."
– Barbey, MacArthur's Amphibious Navy, p. 316
Royal Netherlands East Indies Army
Rear Admiral Forrest B. Royal, USN[d]
Rear Admiral Albert G. Noble, USN
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