INVASION OF BORNEO (TARAKAN ISLAND) Part 1

Description

Summary: Good shots, P-38s dive bomb and strafe shore installations. MS, B-25 flying low along beach lay smokescreen. MSs, destroyer bomb coast. LSs, bomb hits on the island. BOMB DAMAGE IN GERMANY.: 05/15/1945. AVs, damage to Stuttgart. AV, showing the city of Karlsruhe and the destruction caused by aerial raids. Destroyed industrial buildings and yards. BURNING BOMBED DAMAGE.: 07/11/1945. VS, devastated factories and government buildings including the Reichschancellery. LS, bomb wrecked Potsdam Bahnhof. LS, torn up railroad tracks and station platform. BALIKPAPAN, BORNEO.: 06/22/1945 - 07/01/1945. LS, two formations of B-25s in flight. Scenes photographed from rear of bomb bay door Showing bombs dropping. Smoke from bomb hits seen in distant bg. AVs, shells dropping on Moratai. Receding terrain seen from plane as bombs drop and explode. AVs, from low flying plane showing strafing, bombing of area.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities