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Burma attained independence in 1948. It is now known as Myanmar.
Film demonstrating the use of a floating dock on the Rangoon river, Burma.
At Rangoon docks a wide shot ...
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 ...
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 (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 ...
Indian Engineers (possibly of 44th Field Park Company) of 5th Indian Division, IV Indian Corps, use bulldozers to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Film shot by Sergeant Abbott: Aerial footage; the camera looks through the windscreen of an RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft ...
The British 36th Division advances from India into northern Burma and various activities to aid the advance are ...
A jeep railway is operated by men of 36th Division near Sahmaw in northern Burma.
A jeep, fitted with ...
Part 1: Jeeps with trailers cross a Bailey bridge. A sign reads 'Speeders beware! Mark my words / Wait and ...
Signallers of 36th Division seen laying telephone wires from a Brigade HQ to a forward battalion in the ...
A sign reads "Tiddim Bye-Pass (sic). Through Traffic". Indian troops with rifles, picks and shovels walk along a jungle-lined road. ...
Troops of the 5th Indian Division pass through Tiddim, Burma, having taken the town, and move on towards ...
British soldiers and supplies wait on a rough road. A jeep and trailer come along the road; there is a ...
As tanks and infantry of 5th Indian Division advance towards Tiddim, Burma, Indian Engineers bridge the Beltang Lui ...
Scenes of Burmese civilians receiving medical treatment and air evacuation of British casualties from Mohnyin in northern Burma.
At ...
Aircraft dropping supplies by parachute and evacuating wounded in support of 7th Indian Division, Fourteenth Army.
Men of Air ...
Documentary scenes showing the process of airfield construction in forward areas.
Various stages in the construction of an airfield, ...
Aerial shots of the damage done to Myitkyina, Burma, by American forces in the area who were shelling the Japanese ...
Lord Munster, Under-Secretary of State for India, arrives in the Arakan, Burma
Earl of Munster arriving at an RAF ...
A mortar battery of 56th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, along with tanks and aircraft, supports an attack on ...
A doctor of the Indian Army Medical Corps administers a blood transfusion in the field to a wounded ...
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GENERAL EISENHOWER TAKES OVER NEW COMMAND SNOWFALL HINDERS EIGHTH ARMY ASSEMBLY LINE ...
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TIRPITZ BLITZED. NAVAL AIRCRAFT IN ACTION JAPANESE DEFEAT IN BURMA. 14TH ARMY ...
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BURMA FRONT. COMMANDO LANDING FOR OPERATION AT MAUNGDAW JAP CRUISER DESTROYED BY BOMBING ...
CANADA'S PREMIER ADDRESSES BRITISH PARLIAMENT JAPS TRAPPED AT IMPHAL BATTLE IN BURMA 4TH ...
For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: GREECE WELCOMES WAR HEROES GEN. LEESE TAKES OVER S.E.A.C. COMMAND RIVER TRANSPORT ...
For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: TOYS FOR OUR LIBERATORS IKE VISITS MONTY SUPPLYING THE BURMA FRONT BY ...
West African Engineers construct a ferry over the Kalapanzin River in the Arakan region of Burma.
African troops of ...
Men of the Burma Intelligence Corps order civilians from their village of Namma in northern Burma before British ...
Scenes from a refugee camp at Rangiya (Rangyia) in Assam, India.
Burmese civilians, including men, women and children, cross ...
A small airstrip is built at the remote village of Saizang, 8 miles south west of Tiddim, Burma, ...
Men of 14th Brigade, 3rd Indian Division (the Chindits), having been evacuated by air from Burma are seen ...
The men of 5th Infantry Brigade headquarters (2nd Division) enjoy Christmas festivities at Yazagyo, north of Kalemyo in ...
British soldiers of XV Corps celebrate Christmas 1944 on the Teknaf Peninsula on the Indo-Burma border.
A man leaves ...
Reel 1: Pan across a beachhead on the banks of the River Chindwin showing men, mules and a number of ...
I. "Captured German 88mm gun." US ordnance crew inspect and test 88mm gun; it is resprayed with US markings.
II. "CBI ...