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.
U.S. Generals at an airfield in the European Theater during World War II. Military police drive in front of United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) General Henry H Arnold's staff car. United States Air Force (USAF) General Hoyt S Vandenberg greets General Carl Andrew Spaatz. Staff car with five star insignia moves. USAF General Elwood Richard Quesada walks on airfield. Aircraft parked in the background. General Vandenberg, General Spaatz and General Quesada interact. They walk and look at B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft parked at the airfield. USAF General James Wayne McCauley and General Graham E Shirley walk. Colonel Milliard, Chief of Staff of 9th Air Force, Captain Bennett, General Vandenberg's aid and unidentified officer interact. B-25 aircraft taxis down perimeter. General Arnold and General Spaatz greet officers on airfield and get in cars.
U.S. General decorates officers in the European Theater during World War II. United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) General Henry H Arnold and cortege at field. United States Air Force (USAF) General Carl Andrew Spaatz and General Lee interact. General Arnold decorates officers. Officers salute. General shakes hands with officers. Staff in the background. General Spaatz shakes hands with fellow officers. General Arnold salutes as band march past. Honor guard holding American flag march past.
United States Army General Dwight Eisenhower arrives in Prague, Czechoslovakia. A United States Army Air Force C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft taxis on Prague Ruzyne Airport (Aviatická, 161 00 Praha 6, Czechia). General Dwight Eisenhower alights from the aircraft and is greeted by Czech officials. His car drives past cheering crowd lining the streets. General Eisenhower car waves to the cheering crowd from the car. He reviews an honor guard. Eisenhower’s car crosses the famous Charles Bridge (Karlův most, 110 00 Praha 1, Czechia).
The United States Army 415th Regiment, 104th Infantry Division in Cologne, Germany during World War II. Destroyed buildings along a street in Cologne. Soldiers advancing through the street. The soldiers fire rifles from inside buildings. The artillery crew firing 60 mm mortar. A U.S. soldier gently removing rings from hands of a wounded German prisoner. United States Army soldier places a captured German weapon on the ground directly in front of the tread on M10 tank destroyer which then rolls over it. Debris on the street. Prisoners of war marching on the street.
United States Army 3rd Armored Division soldiers in Cologne (Köln) Germany during World War II. German soldier with hands raised surrenders to United States Army soldiers. Destroyed buildings and wreckage along the street sides. Debris on the street. View from camera position looking out of at a street-level city window as a German Panzer tank is hit by fire from an Allied tank and goes up in flames, near the Cologne Cathedral. Smoke rising from the burning tank. (This is a slightly more distant view of the well-documented attack on a German Mark V Panzer tank, by gunner Corporal Clarence Smoyer in an American M-26 Pershing tank).