Operation Platypus
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Operation Platypus
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Operation Platypus was an operation by Allied special reconnaissance personnel from Z Special Unit during the Borneo Campaign of World War II. Platypus involved small groups being inserted into the Balikpapan area of Dutch Borneo (Kalimantan), to gather information and organise local people as resistance fighters against the Japanese. On 20 March 1945, Platypus 1 was carried out, using Hoehn folboats and inflatable rubber dinghies that had been lashed to the side of the submarine USS Perch. Four
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WWII Allied reconnaissance mission
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Platypus
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2023-01-14T02:50:22Z
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