INVASION OF BALIKPAPAN, DUTCH BORNEO, S E ASIA Part 1

Description

Summary: LS, Pan, LCIs loaded with vehicles and equipment in preparation for Australian troop invasion under cover of Allied warships. LS, Australian troops wait to load aboard LCIs. MS, vehicles are backed onto awaiting LCIs. VS, Australian troops wading waist-deep, carrying heavy packs and equipment. In order to board the ships, the men must hold onto a rope as they wade through. MCUs, Admiral D E Barby (USN), Maj Gen E J Milford (Australian), Rear Adm Albert G Nobel (USN), and Air Commodore Shurger (Australian). LSs, VS, convoy as it leaves Morotai Island, N Moluccas Group. VS, ships manuevering for deployment. RVs, vessel loaded with trucks and other equipment. LS, convoy underway. LS, offshore bombardment at Balikpapan showing the effect of rockets and other shellfire. MSs, rocket barrage is fired from ship. LS, Pan, large smoking area some distance from shore. The shoreline of the island is clouded with smoke and flame. VS, LVTs in line. MS, 40mm gun is loaded and fired toward beach area. MSs, MCUs, LVTs advance toward beach. MCUs, Australian aboard LVT. VS, LVTs moving inland past debris and burning huts. VS, Australians advancing and firing their weapons. (Enemy not visible). VS, Australians on beach. (One man in fg apparently dead). MSs, CUs, activity on beach. Australians in foxholes, men firing weapons, wounded are evacuated by medics. Pan of area, destroyed Japanese naval gun implacement is visible. MS, tanks and Australians on the move. LS, MS, Australians on battlefield moving up a hill; dense smoke in bg. MS, CUs, flamethrowers in action (both hand held and on tanks). CU, starving woman lies on ground. LSs, Pan, wrecked town of Balikpapan.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities