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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.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054938
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.

Date: 1945, July 26
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072727
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).

Date: 1945, June 28
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032529
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).

Date: 1945, July 9
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041656
American and Japanese aircraft attack each others airfields in World War II. B-24 and B-29 heavy bombers strike Japanese targets

Formation of U.S Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bombers, flying over Iwo Jima during World War 2. View from one of the aircraft of Japanese air field below. Nightime view of American anti-aircraft fire directed at Japanese bombers attacking Saipan. Explosions and fire silhouetting American aircraft on Saipan's Isely field during Japanese air raid. Burning U.S. B-29 bombers. Scene changes to Japanese aircraft destroyed on the ground at the air base on Iwo Jima. Bodies of dead Japanese airmen on the air field. Later view of P-51Ds from the 21st Fighter Group at Central Field on Iwo Jima, in the summer of 1945,after the field had been substantially upgraded to allow B-29 operations. A B-29 is seen displaying an "F" tail code. A formation of B-24 Liberator bombers in flight on a bombing raid. Waist gunner inside a B-24 firing at attacking Japanese fighter aircraft. A Japanese fighter going down in flames at night. View from a B-24 of another, off its left wing, flying in formation with its number 3 engine shutdown and propeller feathered. View from B-24 bombing oil facilities at Balikpapan, Borneo. Bombs bursting on the ground. Glimpse of B-24s in formation. Aerial views of bomb bursts carpeting target areas below. Aerial view of B-24s flying above smoke rising rapidly from bombs bursting below. View of bomb craters left below (probably from later reconnaissance flight).

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036305
General MacArthur inspects Balikpapan, Borneo during World War II and boards a cruiser.

Allied Supreme Commander for the Pacific, General Douglas MacArthur, in Balikpapan, Borneo during World War 2. General MacArthur, Australian Brigadier Sir Ivan Noel Dougherty, Commander of the 21st Infantry Brigade, and other officers inspect Balikpapan. Palm trees in the area. Th inspecting party climbs up a hill. General MacArthur and others look at the smoke rising from a coast in the distance. General MacArthur and others leave the beach in an LVT ( Landing Vehicle Tracked) . Oil refineries on fire at the coast as smoke rises. General MacArthur and others board a cruiser.

Date: 1945, July 1
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059138
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