Allied troops invade Hollandia, Indonesia during World War II. United States ships underway in the Pacific Ocean on April 22, 1944 to attack Japanese positions in Hollandia. The ships underway as United States Army General Douglas MacArthur looks at the convoy from United States cruiser USS Nashville (CL-43). Radars on alert in case of enemy attack. A United States destroyer transfers mail aboard the USS Nashville. Troops being briefed aboard a ship. Naval guns fire at the coast during night and flaks burst. American carrier planes bombard Japanese position on the island. Allied ships underway as planes fly overhead. Troops in landing crafts as they head for the beach. Allied troops disembark from the crafts and advance inland. Trucks, tanks and troops unload from landing crafts. Allied soldiers walk through mud as they advance. General MacArthur gets off Nashville and inspect an airfield under construction on the island.
Riots against Chinese people in Chinese Quarters of Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesians throw stones on shops. Crowd demonstrates on road. Crowd broke the windows of a van. People throw stones. A car turned over on road. Crowd beat Chinese men. Chinese lay wounded down. Military troop carriers on road, soldiers on tank.
Road view through windshield of a moving car. Distant view of Mosque Masjid Agung Al-Azhar (Masjid Agung Al-Azhar, Jl. Sisingamangaraja No.1, RT.2/RW.1, Selong, Kec. Kby. Baru, Kota Jakarta Selatan, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta 12110, Indonesia) and a man walking up the steps of Mosque. Man entering the gates of the Mosque and view of the Mosque dome.
United States President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon on tour to Indonesia. President Nixon and the First Lady welcomed at Jakarta by General Suharto (successor to President Sukarno) and other dignitaries at the Merdeka Palace (Jalan Medan Merdeka Utara, Jakarta Pusat, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta). A chandelier lit up inside the palace. The dignitaries walk through a palace. Workers and housekeepers of the palace. President Nixon, General Suharto, Lady Nixon and others at a conference hall. Suharto and Nixon talk with each other.
U.S. infantry battles Japanese forces on Noemfoor island in Indonesia during World War II. U.S. infantry lands on narrow coral reefs. The infantry advances inland under fire. A Japanese air base comes under American possession. Reinforcements and supplies arrive by air. Paratroopers and parachute supplies are landed by U.S. Army Air Force transport aircraft.
Battle of Palembang, Indonesia, in World War 2. Japanese Kawasaki Ki-56 transport aircraft flying overhead in formation, begin dropping paratroopers. The sky is filled with their chutes. Next scene shows many struggling to make their way through knee-deep swampy jungles, where they landed. Most of their arms and ammunition were lost in the swamps. They finally emerge to attack lightly defended facilities of the Dutch Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij (BPM) and Nederlandsche Koloniale Petroleum Maatschappij (NKPM),a refinery for the American Standard Oil Company. Japanese soldiers are seen after a day's battle with the defending contingent of Royal Netherlands East Indies Army home guard. A rear guard group of them and Dutch technicians, are made prisoners. Shell fired by departing Dutch forces strike oil storage tanks. Smoke rises in several places and one very heavy black smoke plume rises near the camera. Soon the area is a blazing inferno. The Japanese troops succeed in confining fires to the oil tanks, extinguish them, and save the cracking towers and other essential oil refinery structures. The Japanese flag is seen atop one. (Note: Two technicians seen in white, at TC: 02:05, are BPM workers. The one on the left is Christiaan Stapels. He died at a Japanese prisoner of war camp in June 1945.)