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Burma attained independence in 1948. It is now known as Myanmar.
After fierce fighting British and Indian soldiers inspect the damage to the town of Tiddim, Burma.
General view of ...
After crossing the Irrawaddy River, Burma, troops of the 33rd Indian Brigade, 7th Indian Division consolidate the bridgehead ...
Sherman medium tanks of 5th (Probyn's) Horse, 255th Indian Tank Brigade being carried on rafts across the Irrawaddy ...
HMS Roebuck anchors on the Thanzit River (Burma) to disembark troops of 4th Indian Infantry Brigade into LCIs ...
Men seen leaving US transport aircraft in Burma.
A United States Army Air Force (USAAF) Dakota (C-47 Skytrain) transport ...
Brigadier General William Old, head of Troop Carrier Command, decorates five RAF Wing Commanders with the American Distinguished ...
Film demonstrating the use of a floating dock on the Rangoon river, Burma.
At Rangoon docks a wide shot ...
Part 1: Near Milestone 82 on the Manipur Road a signpost gives the distance to Worcester (5,100 miles, 'no way ...
Scenes of mortar training, a crashed Japanese bomber, mountainous scenery, a wounded Japanese prisoner and captured equipment, and ...
An Anti-Tank Regiment enjoy the pleasure of an improvised oven and a well-organised post office at their camp ...
Colonial troops in England for the Victory Parade on 8 June 1946.
Colonial troops arrive in Britain for the Victory Parade. ...
With the fall of the Burmese capital Rangoon the Allies stage a victory parade.
A podium with dignitaries and ...
Not long after the liberation of Rangoon, capital of Burma, and the end of the war in Europe, ...
A week before the handover of responsibility for Burma from military to civil administration, a parade is held ...
Scenes in the neighbourhood of Kappali, Burma, the site of a S.P.G. mission station.
Burmese villagers of Ywama village, six miles west of Kindaunggyi, north of Taungup in the Arakan, Burma, celebrate ...
Visit of the Reverend T Roberts, Society of Jesus, Archbishop of Bombay and Vicar Delegate to His Majesty's ...
United States Army Lieutenant-General Daniel Sultan (Commander of the Burma-India Theatre) arrives in his private Douglas C47 Skytrain ...
Lieutenant-General Leese pays a visit to IV Corps which has been fighting in the Meiktila region of central ...
Lieutenant-General F A M Browning, Chief of Staff of South East Asia Command, visits positions held by the ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, visits the officers and men who helped ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia, and American Lieutenant-General Daniel Sultan visit the ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits IV Indian Corps in Burma.
An ...
The visit of Lieutenant-General Sir William Slim to 2nd Division area at Ondaw, Burma.
Lieutenant-General Sir William Slim, commander ...
Seventh film in a series showing the story of air power and its impact on the world. This ...
An explanation of the background to the War in the Far East and of its probable strategic development, ...
I. 'BURMA.' British Fourteenth Army M3 Stuart light tanks and soft-skinned vehicles drive along a jungle track during the fighting ...
Indian Engineers (possibly of 44th Field Park Company) of 5th Indian Division, IV Indian Corps, use bulldozers to ...
Film presumably intended for distribution in RAF camp cinemas in India and Burma illustrates the work done by ...
Film account of the part played by the 81st and 82nd (West African) Divisions in the third Arakan ...
Reel 1: Aerial footage showing a Royal Candian Air Force (RCAF) Douglas Dakota transport aircraft in flight; the aircraft is ...
Women of the Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma), known as WAS(B)s, provide a mobile canteen service to British and ...
Electrical and Mechanical Engineers salvage damaged civilian motor vehicles in Rangoon, capital of Burma, following its capture by ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Christison KBE CB MC leading a planning conference at Division HQ situated at Myebon, Burma
Present ...