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Burma attained independence in 1948. It is now known as Myanmar.
The army use deceptive tactics in order to mislead the Japanese in preparation for the crossing of the ...
A few miles from Kyaukpyu on Ramree Island, Burma, the men of 123rd Mechanical Equipment Corps and 702nd ...
Three senior air officers talking in front of a parked North American Harvard aircraft; one is an Air Marshal (possibly ...
1,403 freed Allied prisoners of war and civilian internees board the RMS Orbita at Rangoon, Burma, for repatriation, ...
Former Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Siam (Thailand), board a landing craft to a ...
After the victory at Tamu, Burma, troops of 1st Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders retire to a rest ...
RAF Douglas Dakota aircraft, operating from Chandina, seen resupplying troops with food and ammunition at Murdoch and Taung ...
Supplies are packed for parachute drops from RAF transport aircraft, with aerial footage of Rangoon, Burma.
Aerial footage showing ...
RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft fly liberated Allied prisoners of war (POWs) to Rangoon, Burma, from Don Muang ...
More footage relating to an Gang Show organised by an RAF Welfare Unit on Akyab Island (Sittwe), Burma.
Chevrolet ...
Scenes from an RAF Gang Show performance on Akyab Island (now Sittwe, Burma).
Two Chevrolet 1.5-ton lorries drive past ...
RAF personnel leave Rangoon, Burma, by ship for leave, postings, and repatriation.
Rangoon harbour; a temporary bridge leads to ...
Several British planes carry out dive bombing attacks in the distance and smoke is seen rising from the area.
Notes
Mandalay, Burma's ...
Men of the RAF Regiment man gun positions on troopships in the Rangoon River before sailing for Singapore.
RAF ...
Men of an RAF Regiment Light Anti-Aircraft Squadron make an amphibious landing at Rangoon, Burma.
Group Captain Harold Pleasance, ...
An RAF Repair and Salvage Unit recovers a crashed Hawker Hurricane fighter-bomber near Sagaing, Burma.
A jeep and a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...