Koepang Bang PTO (id:#57575)

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Penful Airfield, Koepang, Dutch Timor 1942-02-20 (7 others)

Overview:

After the fall of Sumatra, another combined sea-air assault was launched against the post of Koepang, located on the western end of the Dutch portion of Timor Island by the Yokosuka SNLF. Here 307 paratroopers descended on the Penful Airfield just south of Koepang. Allied resistance, a combined Australian-Dutch force known as Sparrow Force, was strong enough to prevent the Japanese from capturing the airfield in another easy conquest.

Defender: Australian / Dutch (Coy C, 2/40 Australian Infantry Battalion, NEI Colonial Infantry Company, and 2nd East Indies Colonial Infantry Company)  

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