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Burma attained independence in 1948. It is now known as Myanmar.
Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the recently returned Governor of Burma, attends a dragon dance in the Chinese quarter of ...
Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the recently returned Governor of Burma, attends races at Kyaikasan racecourse in Rangoon.
Dorman-Smith with a ...
Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the recently returned Governor of Burma, receives a civic welcome in Rangoon.
Series of severely underlit ...
Dorman-Smith's car arrives at Rangoon Cathedral and he gets out. Lady Dorman-Smith with the Rt Rev the Lord Bishop of ...
Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the pre-war Governor of Burma, returns to Government House, Rangoon, after years of government-in-exile.
Wide shot ...
View looking ...
Fairly dark ...
Guards lining ...
Aerial footage of RAF Hawker Hurricane ground attack and supply operations in and around Mandalay, Burma.
Aerial footage; the ...
RAF 42 Squadron Hawker Hurricanes are used to attack ground targets, drop parachute supply canisters and distribute leaflets ...
During the night Royal Artillery troops landed on a small island near Ru-Ywa, Burma, and manhandled their 5.5 ...
Gurkha infantry of 1st Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles, 63rd Brigade, 17th Indian Division, seen entering the town of ...
RAF 42 Squadron are briefed before a sortie from Onbauk forward airstrip, near Shwebo, Burma.
Taxiing RAF Hawker Hurricane ...
RAF Hawker Hurricane fighter-bombers conduct an exercise in close air support near Meiktila, central Burma.
A plume of dust ...
Hawker 'Hurribomber' aircraft are rearmed at Onbauk forward airstrip on the River Irrawaddy before attacking nearby Japanese targets.
An ...
Newsreel items (mute) including production of India rubber, capture of Tiddim (Burma) and South African Navy at sea.
Scenes at an Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers' workshop of 123rd Brigade, 5th Indian Division, and views of ...
In the ruins of factories on Akyab Island (Sittwe), Burma, enough material and equipment was found by the ...
Film showing vehicle maintenance activities at a field workshop in Burma.
An officer seen using a loud hailer. A ...
I. "THE NEWS IN BRIEF. Karachi Contact Club, Pola Festival, Nagpur - Police Investiture". Sir Hugh Dow, Governor of Sind, ...
I. "AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM ARRIVES IN INDIA". Australians arrive in Bombay for a cricket tour that will take them to ...
I. BENGALS SUPPLY AND TRANSPORT SITUATION IMPROVED
I. BENGALS SUPPLY AND TRANSPORT SITUATION IMPROVED - Watching army trucks being ...
I. "MR. GANDHI RELEASED" Gandhi is released from the Aga Khan's palace after a year and a half. Initial scenes ...
I. "NATIONAL DEFENCE COUNCIL MEMBERS WITH INDIAN TROOPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST" Touring members of the National Defence Council meet ...
I. "WEST AFRICAN'S ROLE IN INDIA'S DEFENCE" West African troops, "toughened by the toughest climate in the world", arrive in ...
I. "KHALSAS WINS M.U.C. GOLD CUP" The Gold Cup Final (soccer) in Madras is won by Khalsa College. The match ...
I. "THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PRESENTS NEW COLOURS TO THE FOURTH BOMBAY GRENADIERS" The Commander-in-Chief, General Sir Claude Auchinleck, arrives in Bombay ...
I. "THE EMIR OF KATSINA COMES TO INDIA TO SEE HIS WEST AFRICAN TROOPS" The Muslim Emir of Katsina (on ...
Indian Sappers and Miners of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen at work with shovels, picks and ...
Indian troops, many of whom had been overseas for several years serving in Africa and the Mediterranean, are ...
A brief picture of the training of India's army and a record of its service overseas through the ...
Scenes of Inland Water Transport operations on the River Irrawaddy in Burma.
A number of local rafts on the ...
Reel 1: A Ramp Cargo Lighter (RCL) being launched. A man paints an identity number (N-226) onto a Higgins barge ...
Troops of 2nd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment, 4th Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment and the 4th Battalion 1st Gurkha ...
Reel 1 Part 1, shot by Sergeant Wilson at Dalla dockyard, Rangoon: shot of the name 'Noel K Adam' above ...
Motor transport of IV Indian Corps seen passing through the Oktwin area, south of Toungoo, on the road ...
Following the breakout of Japanese forces in the Pegu Yomas, mortars, armoured cars, tanks and infantry are deployed ...
The Japanese Army constructed a road through the Arakan, Burma, from the An Valley to Taungup and Prome ...
Japanese emissaries arrive at Mingaladon airfield, near Rangoon, Burma, to begin preliminary surrender negotiations.
Two Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-57 'Topsy' ...
Air Vice Marshal Bouchier (commander ...
At Mingaladon airfield, Rangoon, a ...
Japanese delegates, led by Lieutenant-General ...
With the surrender of Japan, a party of Japanese troops arrives in British territory on the banks of ...