File:Aussie soldiers landing, Brunei Bay, 10 June 1945.jpg

English: Notes: Jack Proctor is the coxswain and photographer. At the landings on Tarakan in June 1945, Jack drove a landing barge, "I always tried to get the men as near to the beach as I could so they didn't have to wade too far, but that meant we also came under enemy fire, other barges would drop the men early and clear off!", he said in an oral history interview a year before his death. He was later attached to US forces in the Philippines and witnessed troop evacuations from New Guinea.

The Battle of North Borneo took place during the Second World War between Allied and Japanese forces. Part of the wider Borneo campaign of the Pacific War, it was fought between 10 June and 15 August 1945 in North Borneo (later known as Sabah). The battle involved a series of amphibious landings by Australian forces on various points on the mainland around Brunei Bay and upon islands situated around the bay. Japanese opposition to the landings was sporadic initially, although as the campaign progressed a number of considerable clashes occurred and both sides suffered relatively significant casualties. Ultimately, however, the Australians were successful in seizing control of the region, although to a large extent the strategic gains that possession of North Borneo provided the Allies with were ultimately negated by the sudden conclusion of the war in August 1945.

Format: B&W Photograph

Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.

Repository: Blue Mountains City Library www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/library/

Part of: Local Studies Digital Collection - Proctor Album

Provenance: Jack Proctor

Links: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_Craft_Assault

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_North_Borneo