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A coordinated attack takes place on Japanese positions along the Pindale to Mahlaing road north of Meiktila. Burma, ...
United States Army Air Force medium bombers attack pockets of Japanese resistance after the capture of Yamethin, Burma.
North ...
AMATEUR. Film of local events in Ajmer province including the fair at Pushkar.
Camel race and general views of people and ...
AMATEUR. Local dances from the Daffla region of India and local men performing spectacular tricks on tight-ropes.
Men dancing and acting ...
A survey of the strategic situation of the British Empire in the Far East in the face of ...
"This C.O.I film is a Crown Film Unit Production of vital interest to all peace-loving peoples today, for the "Alien ...
INTEREST. Shots of the sea from the side of "S.S. Narkunda" (31). The bridge of the ship (65). The engine ...
Impressionistic account, without commentary, of day-to-day life onboard HMS Coventry as she sails from Portsmouth to Hong Kong ...
Undated film of Allenby in Palestine, and scenes of the RAF flying display at Hendon and the cerremony of Trooping ...
Lieutenant-General Raymond Wheeler US Army, is invested as an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE), while ...
Allied prisoners of war, liberated from Japanese captivity, are seen at Kallang airfield, Singapore.
Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de ...
Scenes of an Allied victory parade, mounted in monsoon weather in Rangoon, capital of Burma, on 15 June ...
Scenes of an Allied victory parade, mounted in monsoon weather, in the Burmese capital Rangoon, 15 June 1945.
Views ...
Scenes of an Allied victory parade, mounted in monsoon weather in Rangoon, capital of Burma on 15 June ...
Close-ups of senior Allied officers, shot for editing purposes, during an Allied victory parade in Rangoon, Burma.
Series of ...
Amateur film of the Regal Cinema staff in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, recreating in the garden behind the cinema their ...
Part 1: On the main thoroughfare in Batavia Ambonese troops have established a roadblock and stopped a passing car. The ...
'Action' drama set in the period of the confrontation with Indonesia.
Establishing scenes show enemy soldiers carrying out an ...
Aerial shots of the damage done to Myitkyina, Burma, by American forces in the area who were shelling the Japanese ...
At a jetty men carry belts of ammunition. The belts are passed below decks. The harbour as the boat leaves. ...
Scenes of Supermarine Sea Otter amphibious biplanes in flight and the burning wreckage of a Sea Otter shot ...
A Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF 230 Squadron and DUKW amphibians are used to evacuate casualties of ...
Troops of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen aboard HMS Prins Albert before making an amphibious landing ...
Troops of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen making an amphibious landing on the banks of the ...
A Gurkha of the 3rd Battalion 2nd Gurkha Rifles has a leg amputated in a field hospital at ...
Scenes of a visit by an Indian Maharajah to an RAF field hospital near Imphal.
The Maharajah arrives by ...
Part of an RAF Wing and an RAF Regiment Squadron moves across some difficult terrain to a new ...
Oceanliner voyage with large number of small children showing how they were kept amused on board. Scenes of unidentified large ...
In Saigon, capital of French Indo-China (Vietnam), British, Indian and French troops mark the first Armistice Day since ...
ACTUALITY. The Governor of Bengal, Lord Lytton, inspects the Governor's Bodyguard in Calcutta.
Main title. The Governor and his party get ...
DRAMA. Set in Malaya. Professor Gilbert Olives and his wife Marion are in Malaya so that he can develop an ...
AMATEUR FILM.
ARAB LEGION AMMAN. Filmed around April 1937 on the occasion of the annual parade of the Legion. The parade ...
INTEREST. Pearl diving and a pearl fleet in the Persian Gulf.
In Singapore an Armistice Day parade is held for the first time since the end of the Japanese ...
Scenes from a commemorative parade and wreath laying at the Cenotaph in Singapore on Armistice Day, 1945.
Troops on ...
A survey of the involvement of India's Home Front in the war effort.
An opening sequence of blackout, ARP ...
An exercise involving the transport of army units to a brief 'action' in the Middle East briefly portrayed ...
32nd Army (Blood) Transfusion Unit work at a forward airfield to save the lives of soldiers from IV ...
French troops under General Leclerc arrive in Saigon to take over military responsibility for Indo-China from 20th Indian ...
"ARRIVAL OF MAH H.R.H. JIND (sic). Inspection of the guard of honour" (5). A train arrives and officers in white ...
British, American, Indian and Chinese personnel released from Japanese captivity in Rangoon arrive by hospital ship in Calcutta.
A ...