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  2. Battle of Palembang - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Palembang was a battle of the Pacific theatre of World War II.It occurred near Palembang, on Sumatra, on 13–15 February 1942.The Royal Dutch Shell oil refineries at nearby Plaju (then Pladjoe) were the major objectives for the Empire of Japan in the Pacific War, because of an oil embargo imposed on Japan by the United States, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom after the ...

  3. Battle of Palembang (1947) - Wikipedia

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    Battle of Palembang (Indonesian: Pertempuran Palembang) or Battle of Five Days Five Night (Indonesian: Pertempuran Lima Hari Lima Malam) was an incident of resistance by the Indonesian army against attacks by Dutch army troops NICA which occurred in Palembang for five consecutive days from 1 to 5 January 1947. [1]

  4. Invasion of Sumatra - Wikipedia

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    Paratroopers of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service (IJAAS), Teishin Shudan, descend upon Palembang during the Battle of Palembang, 13‒15 February 1942. At 8 o'clock in the morning on 14 February the air-raid wardens warned Palembang of a big Japanese attack wave which was in flight to the town.

  5. Operation Meridian - Wikipedia

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    Operation Meridian, also known as the "Palembang Raids" was part of a series of British air attacks directed at Japanese-held oil refineries near Palembang on Sumatra during the Second World War, Meridian had two phases: Meridian I on 24 January 1945 and Meridian II on 29 January. As a result, the critical aviation fuel output of the plants at ...

  6. Dutch East Indies campaign - Wikipedia

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    The East Indies was one of Japan's primary targets if and when it went to war because the colony possessed abundant valuable resources, the most important of which were its rubber plantations and oil fields; [13] [14] the colony was the fourth-largest exporter of oil in the world, behind the U.S., Iran, and Romania.

  7. Battle of Palembang (1407) - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Palembang was a naval battle fought between Ming China's treasure fleet commanded by Admiral Zheng He and the pirate fleet led by Chen Zuyi at Palembang, Sumatra, in what is now modern Indonesia. It happened in 1407. The battle resulted in the defeat of Chen Zuyi, who was captured and sent to China for execution.

  8. List of Pacific War campaigns - Wikipedia

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    1942-02-14 – 1942-02-15 Battle of Palembang [4] 1942-02-19 Air raids on Darwin, ... October 1943 – March 1945 Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan;

  9. Chen Zuyi - Wikipedia

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    According to Ming records [3] his name is first recorded after 1400, when a Ming convoy was attacked by pirates commanded by Chen Zuyi. At Palembang Chen had 5,000 men and 10 ships under his command, and was the strongest pirate of Southeast Asia at the time.

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