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 However Tarakan proved to be unsuitable for the Beaufighters to operate from, and they were withdrawn to Morotai, where they largely sat out the rest of the Pacific War.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.