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The reopening of the Kowloon-Lo Wu railway line gets off to a decidedly mixed start, and RAF men ...
An RAF Repair and Salvage Unit recovers a crashed Hawker Hurricane fighter-bomber near Sagaing, Burma.
A jeep and a ...
Reel 1: Docks on the Hooghly River, Calcutta; river craft are unloaded. Two men stand on top of a lorry ...
Scenes of RAF anti-mosquito operations around Imphal, India.
Three Hawker Hurricanes overhead spraying kerosene and DDT. Shot of two ...
Air Commodore Mellersh RAF, Air Commander Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command and Air Vice Marshal Stevens of ...
In order to get the railways of Burma in working condition a company of Indian Engineers salvages rolling ...
Lieutenant-General W J Slim leads a flag unfurling ceremony at inside Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma, after British troops ...
Drama-documentary about a Methodist mission founded in 1816 in Colombo, which helps young tea-plantation workers to learn new skills.
Reel One.
Scenes ...
An experimental Type B Ramp Cargo Lighter (RCL) is assembled and launched, with some difficulty, on the River ...
Scenes of airfield preparation, fighter and RAF Regiment operations and airfield life on Ramree Island, Burma.
Panning shots of ...
Amateur film showing Sir Hugh Stephenson, local scenes in Patna and Ranchi districts of India. Scenes include; seeing the Governor, ...
Japanese General Heitaro Kimura and senior staff officers surrender their swords at the headquarters of Twelfth Army at ...
In Rangoon, capital of Burma, Indian other ranks (IORs) of 60 Indian Workshop Company of the Indian Electrical ...
Amateur film. Manipuri sword dance; old maharajah's palace; Bone ceremony; Rathjatra procession.
Rear Admiral C H J Harcourt, Senior British Naval Officer Hong Kong, inspects airmen and aircraft of RAF ...
British engineers and infantry of 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers (29th Brigade, 36th Division) seen at work on ...
Harvesting and canning of pineapples in Singapore.
Chinese locals work in the pineapple fields. A man, shot from below, cuts the ...
Airmen enjoy some time on leave in Bombay (Mumbai), India, while awaiting embarkation for return to the United ...
Reel 1: Medium shot showing a tent, a look-out post up a tree, and two parked vehicles. One of the ...
Harbour of Akyab Island, Burma, with Merchant Marine ships anchored offshore and the unloading of supplies to landing ...
Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and civilian internees are liberated from Japanese captivity and evacuated by RAF aircraft ...
Former Allied prisoners of war (POWs), recently released from Japanese captivity, arrive in Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) en ...
Internees climbing a gangway to board HMS Sussex. Reverse angle showing same. Civilian ex-internees (on the flag deck?) with a ...