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Japanese emissaries arrive at Mingaladon airfield, near Rangoon, Burma, to begin preliminary surrender negotiations.
Two Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-57 'Topsy' ...
Air Vice Marshal Bouchier (commander ...
At Mingaladon airfield, Rangoon, a ...
Japanese delegates, led by Lieutenant-General ...
With the surrender of Japan, a party of Japanese troops arrives in British territory on the banks of ...
Japanese emissaries arrive at Mingaladon airfield near Rangoon, Burma, to begin preliminary negotiations for surrender of Japanese forces ...
Japanese emissaries, led by Lieutenant-General Takazo Numata, sign an instrument of surrender in Rangoon, Burma.
Lieutenant-General Numata (Chief of ...
Japanese envoys sign a preliminary treaty at Government House, Rangoon, Burma.
Interior footage with live sound in the hall ...
Japanese envoys sign a preliminary agreement at Government House, Rangoon, Burma.
Interior footage shot from a high point looking ...
Japanese envoys, led by Lieutenant-General Takazo Numata (Chief of Staff, Southern Army) and Rear Admiral Kaigye Chudo (Deputy ...
Japanese artillery pieces which have been captured in and around the town of Meiktila, central Burma, are lined ...
Japanese internees arrive at Kai Tak airstrip, Kowloon, Hong Kong, for a day of labour under RAF supervision.
Two ...
Japanese troops of the Kempeitai are marched through Singapore from the headquarters of the Field Security Section to ...
Crowd watching from rails at the Royal Turf Club in Bangkok; camera pans to follow the horses. Rear quarter close-up ...
Aerial footage shows Mandalay (Burma) and outlying villages during the assault by British troops of 19th Indian Division ...
Before the formal Japanese surrender ceremony in Singapore, surrendered Japanese troops clean up the city while freed Allied ...
Following the surrender of their country, Japanese troops are interned in prison camps in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Interior shots ...
Prisoners, captured during a recent breakout operation by the Japanese 28th Army, are seen arriving at 17th Indian ...
On the eve of the Japanese surrender in South East Asia, interned Japanese personnel are put to work ...
Japanese prisoners are seen receiving medical treatment at 13 Indian Casualty Clearing Station at Pegu, Burma.
Rows of sick ...
Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) are shaved at 13 Indian Casualty Clearing Station. Two POWs prepare food; one stirs a ...
With the surrender of Japanese forces in Singapore, interned Japanese troops are put to work on manual labour ...
Surrendered Japanese troops are put to work unloading ships at Kowloon docks near Hong Kong.
Seated Japanese troops; a ...
162 members of the Kempeitai, the Japanese secret police, are jailed at Taiping in Perak, Malaya.
Column of Japanese ...
Onboard the Royal Navy Nelson-class battleship HMS Nelson Japanese officers surrender the port and city of Penang, Malaya ...
At Municipal Hall, Singapore, Japanese officers led by General Itagaki formally surrender all forces in south east Asia ...
Reel 1: Rather underlit interior shots, filmed with live sound, at Municipal Hall, Singapore. A sailor and soldier stand guard ...
At the Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, the commander of Japanese 29th Army (Lieutenant-General Ishiguro) surrenders to ...
At Government House, Hong Kong, senior Japanese officers surrender the territory to British officers led by Admiral Sir ...
Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape, commander of the British Pacific Fleet, arrives at ...
Film of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten arriving at Singapore in advance of the formal Japanese surrender, and the ...
Suspected Japanese war criminals are imprisoned at Stanley prison, Hong Kong.
The gates of Stanley prison slide open as ...
At Bangkok jail suspected Japanese war criminals are paraded in front of ex-prisoners of war and internees in ...
Interned Japanese civilians and troops are put to work in Singapore, now reoccupied by the Allies.
Various views of ...
With the surrender of Japan and the Allied reoccupation of Singapore, Japanese civilians and troops are interned and ...
A young Gurkha boy, Jimmy Nathu, at work and play with an RAF squadron at Tabingaung, Burma.
Shot of ...
After disturbances between the Vietnamese and French population of Saigon, French Indo-China (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) a ...
Amateur film. A journey from Sumatra via Java, Malaya, Sarawak, Java and Sabah to Malaya.
Black and white. Starts with a ...