Timbalai_Airfield Knowpia

Timbalai Airfield
Timbalai Airfield
	IATA: none; ICAO: none;
Summary
Location	Labuan, Malaysia
Opened	1945
Built	1942
In use	1942 - 1945

Timbalai Airfield was an airfield located on the western coast of Labuan, Malaysia.^[1]

The airfield was built by the Imperial Japanese after occupying Labuan Island. The Japanese airfield was later made unserviceable from Allied bombing raids. During early June 1945, the airfield was captured by the Australian Army.^[2]

The airfield is still in use today.^[2]

Allied Units Based at Timbalai Airfield edit

13th Wireless Section (Heavy) "A" Corps Signals

References edit

Notes edit

^ Rottman, Gordon L (2001), p.262
^ ^a ^b PacificWrecks.com. "Timbalai Airfield, Sabah State, Borneo, Malaysia". Pacific Wrecks. Retrieved 2015-10-18.

Bibliography edit

Rottman, Gordon L (2001). World War II Pacific island guide : a geo-military study. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313313954.

5°18′03″N 115°15′01″E / 5.300833°N 115.250278°E / 5.300833; 115.250278

[1] Rottman, Gordon L (2001), p.262

[pw-2] PacificWrecks.com. "Timbalai Airfield, Sabah State, Borneo, Malaysia". Pacific Wrecks. Retrieved 2015-10-18.

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Timbalai Airfield
IATA: none ICAO: none
Summary
Location	Labuan, Malaysia
Opened	1945
Built	1942
In use	1942 - 1945

Summary

Allied Units Based at Timbalai Airfield edit

References edit

Notes edit

Bibliography edit