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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
Reel 1: Two airwomen sunbathing in a garden. Two women in civilian clothes sitting on a gate. A woman mounts ...
Indian Engineers (possibly of 44th Field Park Company) of 5th Indian Division, IV Indian Corps, use bulldozers to ...
Electrical and Mechanical Engineers salvage damaged civilian motor vehicles in Rangoon, capital of Burma, following its capture by ...
Reel 1: Shot from Sunderland of repairs to float and refuelling from DUKW amphibious truck. Airmen hanging washing out on ...
A 2nd Division mobile concert party sets up in Manipur, India, before staging a show for troops of ...
A jeep railway is operated by men of 36th Division near Sahmaw in northern Burma.
A jeep, fitted with ...
A sign reads "Tiddim Bye-Pass (sic). Through Traffic". Indian troops with rifles, picks and shovels walk along a jungle-lined road. ...
British soldiers and supplies wait on a rough road. A jeep and trailer come along the road; there is a ...
Indian Engineers of 5th Indian Division operate a cable ferry across the Manipur River, India, which is then ...
As tanks and infantry of 5th Indian Division advance towards Tiddim, Burma, Indian Engineers bridge the Beltang Lui ...
Air-to-ground shots of Coral Sea and Owen Stanley mountain range, as aircraft flies from Brisbane to Ward's airstrip at Port ...
Air Marshal Coryton, Air Officer Commanding Third Tactical Air Force visits RAF 177 Squadron and RAF 211 Squadron ...
Footage of various Allied transport aircraft taking off after being loaded with weaponry and mules for resupply operations.
Aircraft ...
Men of 23rd Brigade shown reoccupying the village of Ukhrul in Manipur, India and being resupplied with food ...
Patients board a Handley Page Halifax aircraft for repatriation to the UK at Alipore airfield, Calcutta.
An RAF Avro ...
Documentary scenes showing the process of airfield construction in forward areas.
Various stages in the construction of an airfield, ...
Amateur film of the Regal Cinema staff in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, recreating in the garden behind the cinema their ...
At a jetty men carry belts of ammunition. The belts are passed below decks. The harbour as the boat leaves. ...
A Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF 230 Squadron and DUKW amphibians are used to evacuate casualties of ...
Scenes of a visit by an Indian Maharajah to an RAF field hospital near Imphal.
The Maharajah arrives by ...
A Japanese prisoner of war (POW) is escorted to a POW cage near Imphal by a number of ...
A rough road in countryside. A pall of smoke rises and debris lies around a XXXIII Indian Corps ammunition dump. ...
Very short film showing an Avro Anson transport aircraft starting up, taxiing, and in flight, somewhere in India.
A ...
The RAF lead a parade in Calcutta (Kolkata) India, mounted to mark the anniversary of the Battle of ...