Your uncle was honourable man, if not him and those man fighting to liberate us. I wouldn't enjoy the freedom i had today, Thank you. Greeting from Sabah.

@@HappiKarafuru are you from brunei

@@faheemsheikh8432 No

Though years apart, the date he was killed was the same date I was born

My dad was in that same battle, in the sig corp, but thankfully survived.

2/28th Battalion?

So sorry to hear about your dad. One of my father's cousins fought in Borneo but I'm not sure of his history. My father was Keith Botterill one of the six survivors from Sandakan

My father was in the 2/12th Field Artillery unit in 24th Brigade of the 9th division as a gunner on 25 pounders and on 2 May 1945 the unit embarked from Brisbane for Morotai. In June they were part of the amphibious landing on Labuan Island. Apparently Japanese resistance was very stiff in an area known as “The Pocket” and between the 15 and 20th June the 2/12th fired over 140 tons of shells into “The Pocket” killing an estimated 120 enemy soldiers. Dad there were many Australian casualties there so he was happy being a gunner... As is fairly usual for veterans Dad didn’t talk much about his wartime experiences but it is pretty clear that it had a significant impact on his life. He recalled being at the Labuan airfield the day Auster airplanes bought in the Sandakan survivors. He also recalled guarding Kempei Tai members after VJ Day and being horrified by the crimes they were being accused of, as that was the first time ordinary soldiers found out about the butchery of POWs and local civilians. He said over 100 POW’S were convicted during the Labuan war crimes trials, he didn’t say how many were executed. But all in all he said he was spared the worst of the war and while it had a deep effect on him I don’t believe he suffered any significant ongoing trauma. He said the worst thing was the gunfire made him “a bit deaf”....... He retained a newspaper clipping of Macarthur stepping ashore at Labuan and circled a dot way up on a landing craft which he was certain was him. Incidentally he pronounced it "Lab-you-ann" not "Larb-uen". I assume that was how Australians pronounced it back then.

My father was Sandakan Ranau survivor Keith Botterill

No one will forget about what Japanese did before. Cruel and inhumane. Many sabahans were being stepped on until died during the dark era. Japan also try to hide the history about the Nanking massacre. It's all karma they said about the natural disasters nowadays

I owe my existence and my families existence to the Dusun people, without their heroic assistance my father one of the six survivors from the Death March could not have survived

The movie "Three Came Home" is on KZfaq

My friend's grandfather was seeing his own brother died in front of him because he was accused of not being respectful to a Japanese soldier in Borneo. Being stepped on until he was breathless and eventually died. No one would ever forget about what they did in the past, that's why history should be always told to the younger generation. Asians always say it's karma about the natural disasters in Japan.

The USSR Company labuan and north Borneo same lahh

yea but still most Australian call it North Borneo for Sabah...besides Labuan isn't a part of Sabah anymore they are apart of Wilayah Persekutuan...fucking Semenanjung

Yea ...cos I dont wanna be part Federal Territory

Sabah is a State Of Malaysia

@@caroleansoldier382 before 1963 Sabah once a country known as North Borneo.. Learn more about history buddy...chill✌️

Well the other interpretation is that Australia was given the task of liberating South East Asia after New Guinea, which they did. Also keep in mind that MacArthur gave Australia command of the British in the occupation of Japan and the Korean War, he knew where reliability and competence lay.

Awu ehh bana tu perang dunia ke 2

Visit the cemetery in Rabaul too.

Did your father tell you the story..about how he survive from the japanese?Bcause thats some interesting story if you dont mind to share

Yes and No. US nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki to impress the Russians. The emperor was not hanged because US needed Japan to contain Russia. US might have exacted revenge for Pearl Harbour, but let Japan off for its heinous crimes against humanity in Asia and in particular in China. And in return US obtained from Japan all the human live experiment data and biological weapons conducted at Pinfan, China, and promptly used it during the Korean War to cause an bubonic plague outbreak.. For not having to pay reparations, US manage to ensure that Japan is perpetually beholden to America.

Yup