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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
India' s most popular instruments.
Title card: 'Musical Instruments of India' over picture of instruments. Rolling script: 'Part of the ...
Naga refugees shown tending a church garden and graveyard (including British graves), and rebuilding their shattered village of ...
Men of the Air Supply Company, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, packing a variety of material ready for ...
Indians and Britons compete at an inter-Service athletics meeting, hosted by the RAF at Charbatia, north of Cuttack, ...
Scenes of RAF airmen preparing for a Bristol Beaufighter sortie over Burma.
Airborne footage of flight over coastal areas ...
After monsoon weather washes away an RAF church five days before a special Thanksgiving Service, a new church ...
The RAF demonstrates close support techniques in cooperation with a British armoured unit.
Wide shot of an open plain ...
Footage of RAF Hawker Hurricane pilots preparing for an attack on Japanese positions on the Imphal front, India.
Aerial ...
Reel 1: Men gathered around sketch map. Close-up with finger pointing out various locations. A Burmese instructor in front of ...
Reel 1: Supermarine Spitfire with control tower in background. Hawker Hurricanes with propellors spinning before taxiing away past camera. Douglas ...
Reel 1: Docks on the Hooghly River, Calcutta; river craft are unloaded. Two men stand on top of a lorry ...
Scenes of RAF anti-mosquito operations around Imphal, India.
Three Hawker Hurricanes overhead spraying kerosene and DDT. Shot of two ...