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Australian 7th Division Lands at Balikpapan Borneo Combat Footage WW2 with Sound
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- Опубліковано 18 бер 2015
- Australian 7th Division Lands at Balikpapan Borneo World War Two. (with sound and narration)
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My father served here with the 2/27th BTN of the 7th Division AIF. He was amongst the first wave of troops off the landing craft on to the beaches of Balikpapan. Watching this footage, I can only imagine what he must have been feeling while he was on the landing craft, waiting to go ashore. He never really spoke about his war in New Guinea or Borneo, until later in life when he would start to open up after a few beers. His recollections were fascinating. We took him back to Balikpapan in 2005 as part of a 7 Division reunion to commemorate Anzac Day. It was here that he was able to let go of 60 years of pain, and shed the bottled up tears that until then he could never cry. He finally had closure. My dad was a brave man, forever my hero. Thank you for posting this footage, it helps me to understand a little what these men went through.
Bless you, and thank you Len
Cool my Grandfather was 2/6th Armoured recon unit, pretty sure only served in Balikpapan and not in New Guinea.
He was a bit upset as joined the Famous Lighthorse and then they turned nearly all cavalry in to Armoured units.
The Australian 7th Division, 2 AIF (The Silent Seventh) .The only Australian Division to do 3 international tours during WW2. The Middle East, New Guinea, and Borneo. My Father was a Lance/bombardier in the 2/4th Field Regiment of the 7th division and served in the North Africa Campaign, Syria-Lebanon Campaign, Salamaua-Lae Campaign, Finisterre Range Campaign, and the Borneo campaign . The Australian 7th Division fought all the Kings Enemies, the Vichy French, the Italians, the Germans, and the Japanese.They played a part in the first land defeat of the Axis powers in the Middle East and the First land defeat of the Japanese in New Guinea. Members of the 2/4th -54th Battery made history when they became the first Australian Artillery Regiment to do a combat parachute jump into action with their artillery pieces at Nazab in the advance on Lae. General MacArthur said of 'the Australian 7th division was a crack division, the greatest jungle troops in the world.' WE MAY BE FEW, BUT WE FIGHT LIKE MANY. Forever my hero.
9th division served in all three also
Footage of where my father served! I can see why as a kid he didn't have anything to say to me of his experiencesBut was always bitter on the treatment of our POWs Thank you for posting
Same,my Father served here too & help liberate the P.O.W.s,and seeing their condition first hand can understand his bitterness he also had toward the bastards responsible
My Dads war. He to didn't say much about his time in Borneo and thanks to a friendly fire incident he came back from the war deaf then the army tried to get away with saying he wasn't entitled to a war pension.
garry frater that would be right bloody bullshit 🤬if he wasn’t there he wouldn’t of been fucking deaf would he they don’t give a shit and they still don’t , all there crap speeches about how indebted we are and grateful it’s all crap my grandfather was bayoneted 14 times and gassed he was screwed for life they gave him a pension but took it of him for taking the rubbish bin out that’s a great thanks , to the bastard l here’s your medal 🖕look after our bloody soldiers your pricks !!!
Great effort for a small nation of Australia back in 1945..
My great grandfather served here, but not going to tell you what side he was on.
No one cares anymore mate, Japan and Australia are friendly and becoming allies. Germany are also.
Aussies do not hold grudges.
My Grandfather served here in a recon armoured unit, he was a Medium machine gunner and his unit had the tanks with the flame throwers who dealt with the Japanese hiding in tunnels.
@@nedkelly9688 sthu this is from over a year ago and I was never holding a grudge retard.
My great uncle server in the borneo campaign but apparently he never spoke about it - understandably
My great grandfather was in this battle. Ive only heard the stories passed on from my mum. But these stories only belong in nightmares.
wow Balikpapan is my Home
Merdeka!!
balikpapan: https: //ua-cam.com/video/de5d7ysbJGU/v-deo.html
Lest we Forget.
My grandmother's brother was there...then the 'beautiful bomb' was dropped.
Pop was there too.
My father was there, he took colour movie film. I did see it quite a few times when I was young. He passed away in 1981.
ABSOLUTLELY SHOCKING - LEST WE FORGET
The most competent allied amphibious invasion of WWII.
Looking for my grandad x
Same .
Balikpapan, if I split the word, 'Balik' means going home, and 'Papan' means wooden board.... :-)
lol,...but it sounds good :-)
it implicitly means "going home with wooden board"... :-)
Japan in kanji is 日本(Nippon/Nihon); 日(ni) means sun, and 本(ppon/hon) means origin...
balikpapan : World War 2 (Japan) track record in the land of Borneo (East Kalimantan), captured by Indonesia: https: //ua-cam.com/video/de5d7ysbJGU/v-deo.html
My father in the 2nd 14th, 7th div was part of the landing force. Know I think I understand.
I thought that the 1st Australian Air Force was the supporting air force in this action?
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My Grandfather fought here and was his first battle as was Australian Lighthorse that was converted to Australian 1st Armoured Division, because were being trained in armour for the first time only a few units saw action before this.
The only 2 stories he ever told us about the war was the sight of the battle ships guns lighting the night sky as fired, the sight of the battleships decks leaning over as they fired. and how they pushed tanks off sides of the ships after the war ended. was so Australia did not pay USA lend lease, rule was if kept the equipment they had to pay but if they scrapped the equipment they did not have to pay.. we either buried it in the ground or tossed it over the side in to the ocean.
Were stories planes were pushed off ships also. jeeps and even Harley Davidson bikes.
Bull. America was in credit to Australia. The Australian records on Lend Lease and Reverse Lend Lease were meticulous and Australia was the only country that gave America more than it received, while also giving a fortune to Britain who never repaid a penny.
@@seanlander9321 Lol research properly lil man yes we did not owe but would of if kept all the equipment we used.
Love when half arsed try coming at me..
Is a big part on how USA tried dumping all their equioment in Australia and thus we would of paid lend lease for it. big part on bringing brand new equipment over that was not needed even when war was slowing down..
Where did i ever say Australia owed lend lease or did not provide more to USA then they did to us.. if we did not scrap all the equioment it might of been the other way around.. research better or delete your comment as did not prove a single thing against what i said..
@@nedkelly9688 The research is entirely contained in the post war negotiations between Australia and America over Lend Lease and Reverse Lend Lease. America never dumped anything on Australia, which was flat out paying for everything. As I said, the Australian records were meticulous and are easily viewed at the AWM or online between the CDC and the OFLC. Comment remains as accurate.
@@seanlander9321 Look below lil man we dumped every military vehicle we could and proves my Grandfather story true and nothing i said deserved your low intelligent comment of Bull.
If we resold the equipment we had to pay for lend lease of it even after the war and why in my story i say we dumped it off sides of ships so didn't pay lend lease.
In Australia, it has been verified that masses of equipment, aircraft, and vehicles were loaded onto barges and dumped into the ocean off the continental shelf. Although millions of tonnes of equipment were disposed of in this manner, it is known that this was only a small fraction of the total equipment stocks held in Australia. One of the most well known of these sea dumping programs was that undertaken by the Royal Navy’s Pacific Carrier Air Groups. At a site off the Queensland coast, RN Fleet Air Arm and Royal New Zealand Air Force aircraft were lined up on the deck, the fuselages holed with digging tools and then, in an act which would bring a tear to the eye of any aircraft enthusiast, they were heaved over the side. Australian media covered this operation comprehensively at the time and as an interesting aside, a Queensland consortium was formed in 1995 to assess the viability of locating and recovering some of these aircraft for static display or even rebuild to airworthiness.
A recent account of sea dumping (or “Drowning” as it was known in military circles) by a veteran of the operation helps to illustrate the scale of the destruction:
“At the end of the war, I was part of the dumping program off Townsville. We pushed new trucks, jeeps, planes, boxes of aviators watches and cameras like you would never have thought possible. This went on 7 days a week and around ten hours per day. We did have a break when rough seas came up. The waste was something that would nearly make you cry..
Lend-Lease Equipment Disposal Procedure in Australia
The decision to classify and dispose of in-service equipment was done at the unit level. The material was inspected by an officer and assessed into the following categories:
SERVICEABLE
SUITABLE FOR REDUCTION TO COMPONENTS (spares)
DAMAGED WITH A NOMINAL SCRAP VALUE, or
OF NO COMMERCIAL VALUE (usually the fate of lend-lease material prior to the 1949 Lend-Lease Settlement).
Any material classified as “of no commercial value” was to be disposed of by destruction or abandonment to ensure no further use.
Once the decision to dispose of the equipment had been made, the logistics of the disposal were worked out and the disposal operation initiated. There was little Parliamentary oversight for this process and it appears that towards the end of the disposal operations, proper procedures were not always followed.
During the evaluation/classification process, an officer (or Warrant Officer in some cases) was detailed to make an assessment of the various weapons, vehicles, armor, aircraft, vessels, etc. and to decide what was to be destroyed. When the material was classified as being OF NO COMMERCIAL VALUE, the material was disposed of by one of the methods detailed later in this section and a form called a “Write Off Certificate” was completed. The Write Off Certificate contained the type of material, date, location, amount of material, unit involved and the type of disposal.
Most people who were living near major military areas in Australia immediately following WWII will relate stories of seeing masses of partially stripped aircraft and vehicles waiting for the smelters or the scrap merchants. This was only part of the story. Prior to 1949, the lend-lease equipment had to be disposed of without turning a profit, which meant that components could not be sold, even for scrap. Other ways had to be found to dispose of this material...
@@nedkelly9688 You’re very confused. Mixing up post war scrapping, including Australian made, and foreigners scrapping their equipment has nothing to do with Australia’s very thorough and successful negotiations after the war, on Lend-Lease. You’ve written that Australians dumped Lend-Lease equipment to avoid paying for it on return, and that’s bull.
Does Indonesians Has relation to this war..?? I don't know about this war sorry can someone tell me the spesific...?!
Tycozee
Not sure how to say this, but didn't you learn about ww2 in school?
Seems you didn't but, just read anything on world war 2, in your region, SE Asia, the japanese invaded almost every country, and generally subjugated people in those countries, obviously Borneo back then was dutch east indies.
TycoBox - Indonesia was a Dutch colony before the war. The Japanese brought into their occupying army young Indonesians, under Sukarno, and trained them to fight the Dutch when they came back to claim their colony. In 1945, the Dutch returned, with the help of the British, & Young Indonesians fought them for three years. (See, Ian Baruma’s book, Year Zero)
A have a sword from this battle.
Pretty much identical to American amphibious assaults on Pacific islands throughout the war. If the Marines wrote the book on amphibious assaults, the Australians definitely read it!
Respect and gratitude for those who served and fought, and rest in peace to the fallen. 🇺🇸🙏🇦🇺 We did it together, and we won!
Take notice China...
Do Indonesians appreciate this?
The Australian soldier lands at Banjarmasin Borneo(Kalimantan Selatan)
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WASTE OF LIVES AT THAT POINT OF THE WAR - GREAT UNCLE WAS THERE - DAMIEN PARER KILLED UNNECESSARILY - BODY LOOTED BY AN AMERICAN MARINE - PROBABLY SHOT BY THE SAME - AUSTRALIA W0N THE New Guinea CAMPAIGN - SOME YANK HELP - NOT MUCH
THEY DARED TO CRITICIZE US - As in VIETNAM - JOKERS. THE WHOLE THING IS A DISGRACE. WE WANT PEACE.
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AMERICANS IN VIETNAM - JESUS H. CHRIST - WHY? AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND WAS THERE AS WELL. TRUE THAT.
H0W MANY BLOKES KILLED AND WHY? ANSWER ME THAT. AS WITH VIETNAM. OUTSTANDING JOB BY THE AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY.
IN BOTH CASES. LEST WE FORGET.
gak ada bedanya ama jaman dulu.balikpapan tetap gak maju.lebih baik dijajah belanda
Jawa pekok
Setidaknya Balikpapan menjadi kota yang paling maju di Kalimantan bagian Indonesia
Bagi saja malaysia uruskan. Rakyat korang di perbatasan bergantung sama malaysia
Lawak lo badut 🤡🤡🤡
3rd Matilda II ashore on this beach is at the 1st/15th Lancers and has been restored to operational by the museum