Timor Island, also known as Moore Island, was home to more than 3,000 Dutch and Australian troops. When the Japanese army attacked Timor Island, the task assigned to the paratroopers battalion was that when the Marine Corps landed, paratroopers parachuted near Bangfu Airport in the south of the island, occupied the airport, ensured that aviation personnel entered and used the airport on time, and cut off the retreat of the Dutch and Australian troops guarding the island. According to Wan Yazhi's experience, the paratrooper battalion made a series of improvements to the organization of airborne operations before carrying out airborne operations. For example, the parachute area should not be near the airport, but a few kilometers away from the airport. Light and heavy machine guns should not be thrown separately from paratroopers, but should be carried by paratroopers. Airborne troops are divided into two echelons. The first echelon consists of 450 people, including 1, Sanlian and battalion. The second echelon consists of 250 people, mainly composed of the second company.
At dawn on February 2 1, two battalions of the Japanese Marine Corps, with the cooperation of several tanks, began to land in Kupang at the southern tip of Timor Island. 10, 30 transport planes from the first echelon of the airborne parachute battalion took off at Gendari Airport. Under the cover of fighter planes, they sailed 700 kilometers to Bangfuyi Airport, 28 kilometers east of Kupang. The weather over the airport was very good at that time. After the plane dropped from 700 meters to 100 meters, it began to parachute. After landing, the paratroopers met only weak resistance. 1 company and company 3 quickly assembled, collected all the air-dropped materials and headed for the airport immediately. At this time, the Marine Corps is landing in Kupang. In order to speed up the action, the paratroopers relaxed their vigilance against the enemy guarding the island. On their way to the airport, they were suddenly attacked by Dutch troops guarding the airport. After fierce fighting, two paratroopers and all platoon leaders were killed or injured by more than half. The paratroopers could not move forward, so they had to rest on the spot that night. When the attack was launched again in the early morning of the next day, the Bangfu airport had been occupied by the Japanese landing forces. The second echelon of paratroopers parachuted in the original airborne area when the first echelon met the enemy defenders at the airport, and arrived at the airport to meet the first echelon the next morning.
Another unit of Japanese paratroopers, Japanese paratroopers 1 Brigade, carried out airborne operations at the airport next to Pakistan for the first time in the battle of the 25th Japanese Army attacking Sumatra at the beginning of the Pacific War.