AUSTRALIAN ARMY LANDS AT BALIKPAPAN, BORNEO, NETHERLANDS E. INDIES Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 4906 111 ADC SOURCE: AFCF (A-330) Record Group 111 4906 FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 968' ea Silent Accession III-NAV-210 AUSTRALIAN ARMY LANDS AT Balikpapan, Borneo, Netherlands E Indies, 3 July 45 LSs, MLSs, Australian troops take a break in the ruins of a house. Seq: Australians armed with rifles, Bren guns and flame-thrower walk thru the ruins in search of snipers. MS, Aussie with flame-thrower sets pile of rubbish and huts afire. Excellent scene, Japanese soldier on fire stumbles from burning house, falls to ground and picks himself up. LSs, great clouds of smoke from oil fire. VS, artillery men firing 25 lb HOWs. MLS, Australians sweeping area with mine detectors. LS, flame-throwing Matilda tank firing at earth and log redoubts. MS, 5-inch Japanese gun covered with debris on Hill #87. VS, Australian soldiers drag dead Jap soldiers killed on Hill #87 and place them alongside of embankment. MLS, Australians firing water-cooled MG. LS, Australian troops stand around Malayan natives who were hiding in tunnels of Hill #87. Seq: LSM docking at ponton dock near Yellow Beach. Seq: Several Australian Matilda tanks rolls off LSM. Lt Gen Sir Leslie More- head comes along pier. LS, MSs, Matilda tanks rolling from ponton pier into shallow water and up on beach. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/lzw

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities