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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
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. "LORD WAVELL BROADCASTS PLAN TO SOLVE THE INDIAN POLITICAL DEADLOCK". The Viceroy puts forward the proposal for the formation ...
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 ...
Indian Sappers and Miners of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen at work with shovels, picks and ...
Hindu troops of 1st Battalion 19th Hyderabad Regiment, stationed in Saigon (French Indo-China, now Vietnam) celebrate the festival ...
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 ...
Following the breakout of Japanese forces in the Pegu Yomas, mortars, armoured cars, tanks and infantry are deployed ...
With the surrender of Japan, a party of Japanese troops arrives in British territory on the banks of ...
Japanese troops of the Kempeitai are marched through Singapore from the headquarters of the Field Security Section to ...
Crowd watching from rails at the Royal Turf Club in Bangkok; camera pans to follow the horses. Rear quarter close-up ...
Aerial footage shows Mandalay (Burma) and outlying villages during the assault by British troops of 19th Indian Division ...
Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) are shaved at 13 Indian Casualty Clearing Station. Two POWs prepare food; one stirs a ...
With the surrender of Japanese forces in Singapore, interned Japanese troops are put to work on manual labour ...
162 members of the Kempeitai, the Japanese secret police, are jailed at Taiping in Perak, Malaya.
Column of Japanese ...
At the Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, the commander of Japanese 29th Army (Lieutenant-General Ishiguro) surrenders to ...
At Bangkok jail suspected Japanese war criminals are paraded in front of ex-prisoners of war and internees in ...
After disturbances between the Vietnamese and French population of Saigon, French Indo-China (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) a ...
Air Chief Commandant Lady R M E Welsh, Director of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force ('the WAAFs') visits ...
Part 1, shot by Sergeant Hewit: View looking down on a Landing Craft Infantry (Large) (LCI(L)) with Indian troops aboard. ...
Part 1, shot by Sergeant Sanders: View from a landing craft with the Singapore skyline on the horizon and Landing ...
Men of 5th Maratha (Mahratta) Regiment reinforce landing sites around Setkhaw, Burma, which were taken during the night ...