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Burma attained independence in 1948. It is now known as Myanmar.
Off-duty RAF ground crew from a nearby forward airstrip spend a few hours visiting the ancient Burmese capital ...
Film showing a battery of Priest 105mm self-propelled (SP) guns in action at Payagale, and Allied prisoners of ...
Confronted by a blown bridge on the road to Rangoon, capital of Burma, tanks and motor vehicles of ...
A battery of Ordnance SB 4.2-inch mortars firing. At Hlegu chaung (river or watercourse) vehicles are hauled up the riverbank. ...
Film shot by Sergeant Abbott: Aerial footage; the camera looks through the windscreen of an RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft ...
Just days after the capture of Maymyo (now Pyin U Lwin), central Burma, the town is used as ...
Amateur film shot by Captain Paddy O'Neill of the Indian Medical Service, Indian Army, while attached to the Federated Malay ...
20th Indian Division formed a bridgehead over the River Irrawaddy, crossing at Myinmu, Burma, on the night of ...
Reel 1: RAF Hawker Hurricane fighter-bombers overhead. Lee medium tanks driving along a dusty road. A Lee passes with infantry ...
The reinforcement of beachheads after a night attack across the Irrawaddy River, Burma.
Mortars explode and boats are used ...
At a Traffic Control Post on the River Irrawaddy material is organised for ferry crossings to support a ...
Gunners of the Royal Artillery take up position by the village of Pinkan, Burma, and prepare to shell ...
A battery of Ordnance QF 25-pounder field guns in action in Burma.
A lorry reverses towards a treeline and ...
Crew of an Ordnance QF 25-pounder field gun prepare emplacements in Kota, Northern Burma.
The guns of the 156th ...
25-pounder field guns of 18th Indian Field Battery, 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, are seen shelling the ...
After stiff fighting for Myitson, 26th Brigade push through ruins towards Mongmit, Northern Burma.
Troops of the 2nd Battalion ...
Preparations for an attack by British troops on Myitson, North Burma.
Unloading and use of pontoon boats to cross ...
Troops of 26th Indian Division participate in a march past in Rangoon, the recently liberated capital of Burma.
Troops ...
The British 36th Division advances from India into northern Burma and various activities to aid the advance are ...
The 2nd British Division cross the Irrawaddy River in order to carry out the first daylight attack on ...
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 ...