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Japanese troops overcame Dutch...

history · 27 January 1942 · 83 years ago

Japanese troops overcame Dutch and Indian troops and captured the Singkawang II airfield on Dutch Borneo; the Allied troops retreated to Ledo, 15 miles to the southwest. 

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