 During the first week of January 1945 , No. 77 Wing 's aircraft undertook 142 missions against targets in Halmahera , Celebes , and Morotai . In May , the Beaufighters provided air cover during Operation Oboe One , the Battle of Tarakan . In the days leading up to Operation Oboe Six , the Battle of North Borneo , No. 77 Wing surgically attacked enemy targets at Labuan , sometimes within only 100 metres of Allied demolition teams laying charges to breach obstacles on the beach prior to the landings . Read personally led No. 31 Squadron into action during the battle on 10 June 1945 . He became the first RAAF pilot to land at the newly operational Tarakan airfield on 28 June . The following month , No. 77 Wing was to have taken part in the final Allied offensive of the Borneo Campaign , Operation Oboe Two , the Battle of Balikpapan . However Tarakan proved to be unsuitable for the Beaufighters to operate from , and they were withdrawn to Morotai , where they largely sat out the rest of the Pacific War . No. 71 Wing headquarters transferred to Deniliquin , New South Wales , in December 1945 , and was joined there by Nos. 22 and 30 Squadrons , both of which disbanded in August 1946 . No. 31 Squadron transferred from Morotai to Williamtown , where it disbanded in July 1946 . No. 71 Wing headquarters disbanded at Deniliquin in November . 
