 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Zvikamu zve25th IMR zvakaona kurwa panguva yeHondo yeVisayas uye Hondo yeNorth Borneomuna April naJuly 1945 zvichiteerana. Panguva iyi regiment yakanga iri imwe yezvinhu zvikuru zveuto rechimakumi matatu nemanomwe, pamwe chete ne56th uye 71st Independent Mixed Brigades. 9th Company yakadzivisa 2nd Battalion yeUS Army 163rd Infantry Regiments landings pazvitsuwa zvidiki kubva kuTawi-Tawi pakati pa2 na6 Kubvumbi vasati vadzokera muzvikepe zvidiki kuenda kunyika yeBorneo. VaJapan vanenge 30 vakaurawa mukurwisana uku, uye vaAmerica vaviri vakaurawa uye vana vakakuvadzwa. Mushure mekusvika kuSandakan, kambani yakatanga kufamba nemugwagwa kuti ibatanidzezve neyakasara yechirongwa, uye yaive paRanau pakupera kwehondo. Chikamu bedzi chomuviri mukuru we25th IMRs sector chakarwiswa chaiva Papar. The regiment did not resist the Australian a href232nd20Battalion2028Australia29232nd Battalionsa occupation of Papar on 12 July, with Australian official historian Gavin Long writing that its only defenders were two Japanese with a machine-gun who made off as the Australians approached. Pakupera kwehondo 25th IMR yakanga ine simba revanhu vanopfuura 900. 