• Title
  [Borneo - North Borneo, Tarakan, Labuan Island, Balikpapan]
• Creator
  Australia. Dept. of Information
  United States. Office of War Information
• Call number
  PXA 644/377-408
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  ca. 1945
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  73988
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 32 silver gelatin photoprints
  
• Scope and Content
  377. Preparations for embarkation for the British North Borneo landing
  378. United States Alligators arriving at a pre-embarkation area prior to the British North Borneo landing ...
  379. ... landing on British North Borneo - here at an Australian Army supply dump in Dutch East Indies food supplies are prepared for loading on the invasion craft
  380. A prewar interstate passenger liner which carried troops ... was also used in the British Borneo landing
  381. P.T. boat patrol off Seria, near Brunei Bay, British North Borneo, during Allied invasion operations. Smoke from Seria oilwells ... in the background
  382. Tarakan - an Australian tank which was blown up by a Jap land mine along Anzac Avenue ...
  383. Tarakan - bringing Australian wounded out from the firing line ...
  384. Tarakan - a Japanese pillbox which covered Anzac Highway leading to the airstrip ...
  385. Tarakan - LST's sitting high and dry on the muddy beach-head waiting for the tide to float them off ...
  386. Anti-tank traps were flooded with oil by the Japanese at the Tarakan-head ...
  387. A view of the old Dutch barracks near the beach-head at Tarakan
  388. Australian armed with Owen gun during operations on Labuan Island, British North Borneo, stands guard at barbed wire enclosure for Japanese war prisoners
  389. Labuan Island - Japanese in retreat ... shows pioneers of the Australian Ninth Division repairing a damaged road while natives return to the protection of our lines
  390. Labuan Island ... infanteers take cover behind an Australian tank and a damaged Jap truck ...
  391-392. Labuan Island - a view of what was once the pretty little town of Victoria ... wrecked by our bombs and shelling ...
  393. Labuan Island - war correspondents Alan Dawes (Melbourne Herald) and Bill Smith (Dept. of Information)
  394. Labuan Island - two infantrymen set out on patrol ... on the alert for Japanese snipers
  395. Labuan Island - two Javanese ... captured by members of the 9th Australian Division and questioned by them
  396. Labuan Island - as Australian infantry advance north-west from the Labuan airstrip they come under sniper fire ...
  397. Labuan Island - Brigadier S.H. Porter holding a map ... points out to senior officers the disposition of his troops
  398. The landing of Australians on Labuan Island - Australian assault troops crowd the decks of American landing craft infantry
  399. Labuan Island ... Australian soldiers gave biscuits and sweets to civilians ...
  400. Labuan Island - members of the Battalion that captured the airstrip clamber over wrecked Japanese bomber
  401. Last dash to shore aboard American manned alligators during the landing of Australian troops at Balikpapan ... in background smoke from ruins of enemy positions and burning oil-wells
  402. Balikpapan - nursing sisters of 2nd 12th Australian General Hospital ... are ferried ashore
  403. Balikpapan - first Australian nurses to arrive ... by the hospital ship `Wanganella'
  404. Balikpapan - some of the men of the 7th Australian Division
  405. Balikpapan - with the cessation of fighting ... thousands of natives are now streaming back to their home villages carrying their meagre belongings ...
  406. Balikpapan - a view of the native hospital ... [interior]
  407. Balikpapan - native children swarm around Australian 7th Division troops ...
  408. Balikpapan - Sapper R. Hoskins of Melbourne of the 2nd 4th Field Squadron Engineers places steel mesh and barbed wire around an enclosure ... to accommodate Japanese prisoners-of-war
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1045376
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled on reverse
• Name
  Australia. Army
  World War (1939-1945)
  
• Subject
  children
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  alligators (amphibious military vehicles)
  army officers
  barracks
  boats
  bombers
  food supply
  ground vehicles
  guns (small arms)
  hospitals
  Indonesians
  Javanese (Indonesian people)
  naval ships
  nurses
  pillboxes (warfare)
  soldiers
  tanks (vehicles)
  troopships
  war correspondents
  war damage
  wars
  wounded soldiers
  
• Place
  Balikpapan (Indonesia)
  Borneo
  Labuan (Sabah)
  Tarakan Island (Indonesia)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1694061

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