Operation Adder was a military operation conducted by Australia's
Services Reconnaissance Department in
Timor
Timor is an island at the southern end of Maritime Southeast Asia, in the north of the Timor Sea. The island is East Timor–Indonesia border, divided between the sovereign states of East Timor on the eastern part and Indonesia on the western p ...
during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
in August 1944. A party consisting of two Australian soldiers, Captain John Grimson and signaller Ernest Gregg, and three Portuguese Timorese, was dropped on Timor.
Japanese intelligence knew of the operation and ambushed the team on the morning of 24 August at
Cape lie Hoi, during which Gregg and one of the Timorese was killed. There was another skirmish later that day after which Captain Grimson was found dead through self-inflicted wounds.
The two surviving Timorese were later killed.
See also
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Operation Semut
Operation Semut was a series of reconnaissance operations carried out by Australia's Z Special Unit in 1945, during the final stages of World War II. This operation was the part of the Borneo Campaign, and was undertaken in Sarawak, northwestern ...
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Operation Agas
Operation Agas was a series of reconnaissance operations carried out by Australia's Z Special Unit in 1945 during the final stages of World War II. This operation was part of the Borneo Campaign, supporting Allied operations to secure North Born ...
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Naval Base Borneo
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Adder
Adder may refer to:
* AA-12 Adder, a Russian air-to-air missile
* Adder (electronics), an electronic circuit designed to do addition
* Adder Technology, a manufacturing company
* Armstrong Siddeley Adder, a late 1940s British turbojet engine
* ''B ...
1944 in Portuguese Timor
Adder
Adder may refer to:
* AA-12 Adder, a Russian air-to-air missile
* Adder (electronics), an electronic circuit designed to do addition
* Adder Technology, a manufacturing company
* Armstrong Siddeley Adder, a late 1940s British turbojet engine
* ''B ...
South West Pacific theatre of World War II