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Fri Jul 4, 2025, 12:30 AM Jul 2025

Battle of Balikpapan July 1945

One of the latest battles before the Japanese surrender, US naval forces landed Australian troops in the oil rich city of Balikpapan. My dad was an officer on LST 938, the fiercest action he saw in the war. An Australian Colonel he quartered with before the battle with was shot dead in the action. Dad passed in 2011.

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On 10 March, elements of the 41st Infantry Division were put ashore at Zamboanga on the southwest tip of Mindanao. Further south an invasion was pending and on 28 April, LST-938 departed Leyte and steamed to Cairns, Australia. Illustrating the cooperative nature of the war effort, LST-938 transported elements of the Australian 7th Infantry Division to the assault beaches at Balikpapan, Borneo, Dutch East Indies. Unscathed after the landing operations of 1 July, and the follow-up resupply missions, she returned to the Philippines on 27 July.[4]

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