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During World War II, then occupied Muara was previously used by the Japanese Navy as a naval base until the country was liberated by the Australian 9th Division. [5] The Boat Section of the Royal Brunei Malay Regiment (RBMR), specifically, the administration of First Sea Battalion, was relocated to its current location at Muara in 1974. [6]
Before the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific, the island of Borneo was divided into five territories. Four of the territories were in the north and under British control – Sarawak, Brunei, Labuan, an island, and British North Borneo; while the remainder, and bulk, of the island, was under the jurisdiction of the Dutch East Indies.
Kure Naval Base - now a Japan Self-Defense Forces facility and museum; Maizuru Naval Base Maizuru Naval District - now a Japan Self-Defense Forces facility and museum; Hiroshima Naval Base; Oroku Aerodrome/Oroku Naval Air Base - now the Naha Airport/Naha Air Base (JSADF, but the MSDF also has a presence) Kōchi Airfield - now Kōchi Ryōma Airport
Smaller numbers of overseas military bases are operated by China, Iran, India, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. The United States is the largest operator of military bases abroad, with 38 "named bases" [ note 1 ] with active duty, national guard, reserve, or civilian personnel as of September 30, 2014.
When 10,000 soldiers of the Japanese Kawaguchi Detachment arrived in Kuala Belait on 16 December 1941, they swiftly and without resistance occupied Brunei within six days. [23] The small fishing and trading community on PMB was completely destroyed as the Japanese planned to use the island as a base for refitting and refueling their ships. [24]
The Battle of Labuan was an engagement fought between Allied and Imperial Japanese forces on the island of Labuan off Borneo during June 1945. It formed part of the Australian invasion of North Borneo, and was initiated by the Allied forces as part of a plan to capture the Brunei Bay area and develop it into a base to support future offensives.
The residency served as Japanese headquarters during the Japanese occupation of Brunei in December 1941. [a] [12] The residency only sustained a few bullet wounds in the roof from Allied aircraft machine guns during the 1944 bombardment of Brunei Town. Despite the town's extensive destruction, the residency appears to be mostly intact in a 1948 ...
The airport runway was constructed by the Japanese during the occupation, and in 1943 Japanese naval units were based in Brunei Bay and Labuan. The naval base was destroyed by Allied bombing, but the airport runway survived. The facility was developed as a public airport.