Us Official Photographs
TOP; Balikpapan's Enemy Fuel Output, a Maze of Warehouses
1945-03-08
TOP; Balikpapan's enemy fuel output, a maze of warehouses, oil storage tanks and cracking installations, is shown here 8 March 1945. On that day "Jungle Air Force" began its all out strategic bombing of Jap defensive positions. BOTTOM: Only devastation and thousands of bomb craters remain of the Klandasan oil-producing facilities at Balikpapan. So complete was the 13th AAF strategical bombing in Borneo, Jap tanks and other motorized equipment had to be abandoned for lack of fuel and oil.
