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.
British conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Mavis C.Tate,and another MP, sitting in an American jeep with top up, speak with a British officer. They and several other jeeps, carrying visiting British MPs proceed into the liberated Buchenwald Concentration camp. An effigy of a prisoner is seen illustrating form of punishment meted out to inmates. The visiting party includes: Mrs. Tate; Sir Graham White; Sir Henry James; Lord Stanhope; Lord Addison; Sir Archibald Southby; Lieutenant Colonel Wickham; Ness Edward; M. Silverman; and Tom Driberg. Accompanied by U.S. and British officers, they walk about among the camp buildings, where cleanup is underway. A large mass of camp debris is being burned. Freed inmates are seen throughout the camp. Some of them speak with the MPs and explain things to them. Mrs. Tate converses with former prisoners who show their tatooed identification numbers. (World War II period).
Three children, former concentration camp prisoners, stand at barbed wire of Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its liberation from Nazi German forces. One of the boys is on crutches. Several freed prisoners huddle over a cooking fire in the camp yard. Inside a building, Mrs. Mavis C. Tate, and other members of British Parliament, pose with emaciated former prisoners. They speak with the liberated prisoners who lie, covered with blankets, on mats on the floor. Mrs. Tate walks out of the camp with a group of American Army officers. (World War II period).
British Conservative member of Parliament (MP) Mrs. Mavis C. Tate, arm of accompanying MP, as they walk through recently liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp. She is obviously distressed, and sniffs some smelling salts from her purse. She and others look at a jumbled pile of human bodies on the ground, victims of atrocities by Nazi German forces. A flat body truck is piled with corpses, covered with pine boughs.Viewing members of the British Parliament delegation make notes in pads. Various views of the corpses and members of parliament and accompanying British and American officers. Member of Parliament being shown ovens in which corpses were incinerated. Members of the group look at pile of ashes from ovens and pick up human bones that did not burn. They examine a tall wooden gallows-like rack with hooks from which prisoners were suspended and tortured or hanged . An MP holds on to a rope or wire extending from one hook. Camp fence and guard tower in background.
French 1st Army troops in Colmar, France, during World War 2. Two French officers looking at a map spread on the front part of a jeep. A gun on the jeep. French soldiers lying on the ground and looking through binoculars. A soldier with a gun beside him. Soldiers with automatic rifles lying on the ground and firing. The soldiers among bushes with the guns. The soldiers getting up and running. They lie on the ground. Grenades explode. The soldiers advance forward. A French soldier hurls a grenade and lies on the ground. A phosphorous grenade bursts. The soldiers running through the smoke. The soldiers on the ground.
Troops of the 1st French Army assemble in a courtyard in Colmar, France, during World War 2. They proceed out on patrols past camouflaged tanks. A dead German soldier on the ground. A halftrack passes carrying French troops, one holding his hand up in a "V" for victory. Debris from battle is seen everywhere.
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