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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
Air Commodore Mellersh RAF, Air Commander Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command and Air Vice Marshal Stevens of ...
Reel 1: Medium shot showing a tent, a look-out post up a tree, and two parked vehicles. One of the ...
Scenes on the road lines of communication from Dimapur, India, to Kalewa, Burma.
Aerial footage of the road in ...
RAF and Royal Navy salvage personnel attempt to recover a sunken Short Sunderland flying boat from the River ...
Men of 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment (of 23rd Long-Range Penetration (LRP) Brigade, part of 3rd Indian Division (also known as ...
Sir Ronald Cross, British High Commissioner to Australia, visits Imphal airfield and is received by Air Commodore Vincent.
Lockheed ...
The 81st West African Division is in the process of pushing the Japanese from Mowdok, India (Bangladesh) to ...
Film showing the movement of supplies from the port of Chittagong, India (Bangladesh), to Dohazari and onwards by ...
The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits officers and men of 3rd Special ...
Travelogue across part of South India with specific interest in the temples of the region. Both the beauty and the ...
Scenes of the first Women's Auxiliary Air Force personnel arriving in Bombay and sightseeing in Delhi.
Troopship approaches dockside ...
The Nawab of Bhopal, Hamidullah Khan, visits Imphal airfield at sunset.
The Nawab (an honorary Air Commodore) is greeted ...
Demonstrating the difficulty of operating aircraft and airfield life under monsoon conditions at Imphal in Manipur, India.
Shot of ...
A tank track is repaired. A soldier takes a lump hammer to part of the tracks. Damaged bogeys on the ...
After fierce fighting British and Indian soldiers inspect the damage to the town of Tiddim, Burma.
General view of ...
Two months after the end of the Battle of Kohima a memorial is unveiled by Lieutenant-General Stopford commander ...
United States Army Air Force General Old, head of Troop Carrier Command, discusses plans for supply and troop ...
Part 1: Near Milestone 82 on the Manipur Road a signpost gives the distance to Worcester (5,100 miles, 'no way ...
Scenes of mortar training, a crashed Japanese bomber, mountainous scenery, a wounded Japanese prisoner and captured equipment, and ...
Scenes of Allied Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse visiting forward airfields of ...
Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India, visits RAF 117 Squadron and RAF 194 Squadron (Douglas Dakotas) at Agartala, and ...
Indian Air Force Vultee Vengeance divebombers being serviced before taking off for operations in dusty conditions at Joari ...
I. 'INDIA.' An unidentified merchant ship is berthed in Calcutta Docks having arrived with a consignment of Australian wheat in ...
I. 'BURMA.' British Fourteenth Army M3 Stuart light tanks and soft-skinned vehicles drive along a jungle track during the fighting ...
Three Douglas Dakota transport planes line up alongside the airstrip and the furthest plane taxis forward. Another Dakota taxis forward ...
Film presumably intended for distribution in RAF camp cinemas in India and Burma illustrates the work done by ...
For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: SOUTH AFRICA COAST DEFENCE PRESENTING SEAFIRES LIGHTER MOMENTS IN THE DESERT ...
For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: The QUEEN HONOURS A.T.S. DIAMOND JUBILEE OF BOYS' BRIGADE ITALY LORD ...
For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: FIFTH ARMY ACROSS THE VOLTURNO PERSONALITIES: LORD LINLITHGOW, LORD LOUIS, MR.EDEN ...
I. VICEROY VISITS EASTERN FRONT - Pictures of His Excellency The viceroy, Lord Linlithgow's flying visit to the ...
I. INDIA'S LAST TRIBUTE TO SIR SIKANDAR HYAT KHAN - Showing the funeral procession of Punjab's late Premier.
I. ...
An optimistic Vichy/German newsreel produced just before Stalingrad and Alamein is used as a basis for ironic British ...
Amateur film of the construction of a road in Assam from Ledo to Assam by the Indian Tea Association.
Pan over ...
Behind-the-scenes in the Indian Air Force.
The film shows: aircraft in flight; a newspaper headline stating 'three Japanese planes ...
For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include THE ALLIED ARMIES IN BURMA STAFFORD CRIPPS RETURNS FROM INDIA SIR STAFFORD ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include BIGGEST CONVOY REACHES INDIA THE MASTER PLAN THE DAY SHIFT TAKE OVER ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include INDIA QUIETENS DOWN, GETS ON WITH THE WAR MRS. ROOSEVELT IN BRITAIN ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include MADAGASCAR. ON TO ANTANANARIVO CAMEL TRANSPORT IN THE DESERT MRS. ROOSEVELT SEES ...
For detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS UNDERTAKES VITAL INDIA MISSION GERMAN PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA, AND V.C. ...
British newsreel covering the British retreat through Burma, an exclusive report by British Paramount cameraman Maurice Ford.
Opening titles ...
Tour round India by Chiang Kai-shek and his wife.
The film opens by giving a brief background to the ...
Gulmarg, Autumn
Part one of a double issue (part two - 'India at War') dealing with India's political state while ...
A brief picture of the training of India's army and a record of its service overseas through the ...
The situation in India in 1942.
Titles. Elephants heading along a road. A wide plain in India. Aeroplanes flying in ...
The Indian contribution to the war effort.
Titles. Long lines of Indian troops advancing towards camera. A busy Indian street, ...
The world in the 3rd year of war - a mixture of caution ("Today our world faces its ...
I. "News from Ceylon." Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, Commander-in-Chief of Ceylon, and Sir Henry Turnbull, Officer in Command, are escorted ...