Operation Kingfisher was an operation planned to rescue Allied prisoners of war from Japanese captivity in Borneo towards the end of the Second World War. The operation did not come to fruition and almost 2,500 POWs died during the Sandakan Death Marches.[1][2][3]
Australian special operations of the Second World War | |
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Timor, Sundas and Java |
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New Guinea |
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Borneo |
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Celebes and Moluccas |
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Malaya and China Seas |
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other |
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proposed |
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other Netherlands East Indies |
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