Before the capitulation of Japan NICA units already established civil administration in New Guinea (i.e. Hollandia, Biak and Manokwari, Numfur), the Moluccas (Morotai) and Borneo (Tarakan and Balikpapan).
During their second combat tour, VF-10 participated in operations in the Marshall Islands, Jaluit, Emirau, Western Caroline Islands, Hollandia, Truk Lagoon and the Battle of the Philippine Sea (Marianas Turkey Shoot).
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He was arrested on 3 December 2008, in his house in Sentani, near Jayapura, for organizing an 16 October protest supporting the launch of IPWP in the UK Parliament.
With local approval, the United States constructed a headquarters for Gen. Douglas MacArthur at Hollandia (now Jayapura) and over twenty US bases and hospitals intended as a staging point for operations taking of the Philippines.
The principal RAAF airfields in these areas were at Hollandia, Biak, Middleburg, Morotai, Labuan and Tarakan.
under the leadership of Lieutenant Visser, the school then moved to Jayapura (Hollandia) in Irian Jaya, who was named ' Dutch West Guinea ' by the Dutch, occupies a building that has been America's hospitals abandoned by troops Douglas MacArthur.
After three months operating between various ports in New Guinea and the Admiralty Islands, on October 18 the ship sailed from Hollandia, bound for Tacloban in the Philippines.