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    The American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command, or ABDACOM, was the short-lived supreme command for all Allied forces in South East Asia in early...
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    facilities in Manila to prepare for World War II. With the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) the Allies tried to limit the advance of Japan. ABDACOM...
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  • 1942 succeeded by the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM), and secondly, 1963–1971 succeeded by Australia, New Zealand, and United Kingdom...
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    Hein ter Poorten (category Dutch people of the Dutch East Indies)
    Poorten was also Allied land forces commander in the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command on Java during early 1942. Hein ter Poorten was born on...
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    the American, British, Dutch, and Australian forces combined all available land and sea forces under the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM...
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    invade the Dutch East Indies. Later that month, she was assigned to the Striking Force of the joint American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM)...
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  • with the Far Eastern Military District American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) South East Asia Command (SEAC) This disambiguation page lists...
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    Karel Doorman (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
    1942) was a Dutch naval officer who during World War II commanded remnants of the short-lived American-British-Dutch-Australian Command naval strike...
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    Battle of Badung Strait (category Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies)
    confused with the West Java city of Bandung) between the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDA) and the Imperial Japanese Navy. In the engagement...
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    Battle of Java (1942) (category Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies)
    (one regiment). The British, Australian and United States units were commanded by British Major General H. D. W. Sitwell. The British forces were predominantly...
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    Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (category Pakistan Command and Staff College alumni)
    until June 1943 (apart from a brief tour as Commander of American-British-Dutch-Australian Command) and then served as Viceroy of India until his retirement...
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    Commonwealth troops in history and destroyed the linchpin of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command. Although the Japanese invasion force was half of the...
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    USS Langley (CV-1) (category Use American English from March 2022)
    Langley proceeded to Australia, arriving in Darwin on 1 January 1942. She then became part of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) naval...
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  • tribal confederacy of Morocco American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDA Command), a short-lived World War II supreme command of Allied forces in Southeast...
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    of the short-lived American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) which was dissolved after the fall of Singapore and the Dutch East Indies. On 30...
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    The American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) was formed; however, with the loss at Battle of the Java Sea, the Japanese attack on the Dutch East...
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    Australian continent for the British Crown in 1770, naming it New South Wales. The British settlement of Sydney as a colony in 1788 prompted Britain to...
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    December 1941, the Dutch government-in-exile declared war on Japan. In January 1942 the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command was formed to co-ordinate...
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    Battle of the Java Sea (category Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies)
    actions over successive days. The American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) Strike Force commander— Dutch Rear Admiral Karel Doorman—was killed...
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  • in India Eastern Fleet American-British-Dutch-Australian Command South East Asia Command Far East Command, the Soviet command during the war against Japan...
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    George Brett (general) (category United States Army Command and General Staff College alumni)
    Deputy Commander of a short-lived major Allied command, the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM), which oversaw Allied forces in South...
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    HNLMS K VIII, also fled to bases in Australia. With the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) the Allies tried to limit the advance of Japan...
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    United States built bases first in Australia, then in New Guinea. With the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) the Allies tried to limit...
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    HMS Express (H61) (category Use British English from February 2017)
    duties in and around Singapore and the Dutch East Indies under the control of American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) as the Japanese advanced...
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    neighbouring Dutch territories as South Borneo (南ボルネオ, Minami Boruneo). For the first time in modern history all of Borneo was under a single rule. British Borneo...
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    Twenty-Fifth Army (Japan) (category Military units and formations in British Malaya in World War II)
    Percival received permission from the commander of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command, General Archibald Wavell, to order a retreat across the...
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  • Arcadia Conference (category British Empire in World War II)
    American bombers to bases in England, and for the British to strengthen their forces in the Pacific. Arcadia created a unified American-British-Dutch-Australian...
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    in Australia. After the failure of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) to defend the Malay Peninsula, Singapore and the Dutch East...
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    Commander-in-Chief, India, heading the British Indian Army. During early 1942, he led the short-lived American-British-Dutch-Australian Command in South East Asia and...
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    elements from the 7th Division also formed part of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) land forces on Java but saw little action before...
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