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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 ...
After the abandonment of the Japanese assault on Imphal, British and Indian troops of 5th Indian Division are ...
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 ...