307th Long Rangers Balikpapan Raid, September 30, 1944

13th Air Force B-24 "Long Rangers" launch a surprise attack against the Pandasari Oil Refineries located in Balikpapan, Borneo, as part of preparations for the liberation of the Japanese-held Philippine Islands in the fall of 1944.

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