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Japanese drop bombs over Rangoon, Burma.
U.S. official film about the capture of Borneo Oil Fields in Asia. Japanese pilots on Indo-China airfield briefed. Officer commands the soldiers. Soldiers in line salute. Fighter planes start engine and take off. Planes in flight. Map shows position of planes in flight. Planes drop bombs on Rangoon, Burma. Aerial view of bomb explosion in field. (World War II period).
The Battle of Balikpapan, Borneo, during World War II.
Scenes of the Allied bombardment and invasion of Japanese-held Balikpapan in Borneo, during World War II. Bombers of the U.S. 13th Air Force making numerous strikes against Japanese coastal defenses, oil installations and airfields at Balikpapan, Borneo. Scenes of accompanying naval bombardment by warships of the U.S. 7th fleet supplemented by elements of the Australian and Netherlands Navies. General Douglas MacArthur observing operations from the deck of a ship. The Australian 7th Division, composed of the 18th, 21st and 25th Infantry Brigades, with support troops, making an amphibious landing a few miles north of Balikpapan. Australian troops wading ashore from landing craft. Australian armor and other vehicles on shore. Infantry advance supported by Matilda tanks of the 1st Armored Regiment. Australian troops firing machine guns, 5 pounder howitzers, and wielding flame throwers. A Japanese soldier runs from a bunker, with body and clothes aflame. General Douglas MacArthur and Australian officers inspecting the beachhead. Views of Shell Oil Company facilities destroyed by Allied pre-invasion bombing and shelling.
Allied troops under the supervision of U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur invade Balikpapan,Borneo during World War II.
Allied troops invade Balikpapan, Borneo during World War II. Ships underway off the coast of Borneo. Allied troops fire heavy gun bombardment at the oil installation on island. Large smoke column rises. General of the United States Army Douglas MacArthur supervises the operation. Troops fire rockets. United States Navy attack. Australian 7th Division Military Forces and tanks advance on island. Flame throwers used to cause damage. A Japanese soldier in flames trips on branch and staggers along. Dead Japanese soldiers on ground. An emaciated Indonesian man breathing heavily while lying on a woven mat. Pandansari oil refinery in Balikpapan after bombardment and Allied takeover. General MacArthur walks along with troops.
General MacArthur visits the Philippines and Borneo (WW2)
General Douglas MacArthur meets President Sergio Osmena of the Philippines in Nichols Field (present day Villamor Air Base), Manila during World War II. Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland accompanies General MacArthur. Jean MacArthur, wife of General MacArthur, visits wounded soldiers in makeshift hospital. MacArthur and his wife visit Mindanao in a Jeep. Dive bombers bombard Japanese positions in Ipo Dam, Norzagaray, Bulacan. Bodies of dead Japanese soldiers found near Ipo Dam. View of soldiers killed and their remains. General MacArthur also accompanies a task force in the invasion of Labuan, off the coast of Borneo. General MacArthur is seen smoking a corn cob pipe. General MacArthur and General George Kenney inspect Australian troop operations in Borneo. They meet Bornean civilians and Australian soldiers. General MacArthur watch the body of a dead Japanese sniper (World War II period).
Pandansari refinery and abandoned weapons seen at Balikpapan
An animated map shows Balikpapan in Borneo. U.S. aircraft Catalina taxi. Australian engineers greet the 13th Air Force airmen. Damage by a bomb caused at the Manggar Air strip in Borneo. Pandansari refinery and abandoned weapons at Balikpapan. (World War II period).
U.S. 13th Air Force B-24 bombers attack Shell oil refineries and storage facilities at Lutong,Miri, Borneo, in Wor
Map shows location of Labuan Island , Borneo. Views from a U.S. 13th Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber as it conducts a low-level bombing and strafing attack against oil refinery and storage tanks at Labuan Island, on December 8, 1944. View from the B-24 as it flies low over the target, and its waist gunners fire 50 caliber machine guns, using indendiary rounds, at storage tank farm. Scenes from a second B-24 in a similar raid on December 10, 1944. Views of the storage tanks ablaze and billowing smoke. (World War II period).
