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6/18/2025, 7:36:09 AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Timor#Japanese_invasion_of_Portuguese_Timor,_19%E2%80%9320_February_1942

>On the night of 19/20 February 1,500 troops from the Imperial Japanese Army's 228th Regimental Group, 38th Division, XVI Army, under the command of Colonel Sadashichi Doi, began landing in Dili. Initially, the Japanese ships were mistaken for vessels carrying the foreseen Portuguese reinforcements, and the Allies were caught by surprise. Nevertheless, they were well-prepared, and the garrison began an orderly withdrawal, covered by the 18-strong Australian Commando No. 2 Section stationed at the airfield. According to Australian accounts, the commandos killed an estimated 200 Japanese in the first hours of the battle; the Japanese army recorded its casualties as only seven men,[14] but native accounts of the landings support the Australian claims.[9]

https://web.archive.org/web/20070923050126/http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/remembering1942/timor/transcript.htm

>During his retreat McKenzie paused to position an ambush and four of his men inflicted dozens more casualties on the following Japanese.

>Some time later Portuguese sources claim 200 Japanese were killed at the airstrip.