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In the jungle around the town of Tamandu, Burma, a field hospital has been set up to look ...
A picture of the contribution made to Britain's war effort by people from Newfoundland.
The film, which has throughout ...
At an East African Reinforcement Camp an entertainment unit stages a show for troops of 11th East African ...
Official production highlights the war effort of Southern Rhodesia during the Second World War.
The film opens with a ...
Documentary on life in the Indian Air Force (IAF) culminates with a plea to Indian audience for more ...
Shot on 7 October 1945: footage from a landing craft approaching the shore showing two Landing Craft Assaults (LCAs) and ...
An interim report on the progress of the Fourteenth Army offensive in Burma.
Description of the logistic problems of ...
I. Sequence showing Kowloon power station, and lines of coolie women carrying logs to the operative boiler. HA.LS onto a ...
Reel 1 (AYY 294-1) Africans in shirts and shorts carry sacks of cocoa beans on their heads. The sacks are ...
Two new African recruits look up in wonder at the signal flags of the W.D. Fleet. A squad of African ...
The world in the 3rd year of war - a mixture of caution ("Today our world faces its ...
I. "S.E.A.C." a. WAAFs arrive (by ship) in India and, as well as starting new duties, do some sightseeing. b. ...
I. [Recent developments in aviation.] a. Sikorsky two-seater training Helicopter, Hoverfly I; commentary explains advantages over the autogiro. b. A ...
The work and training of the (Royal Bombay) Sappers and Miners; film stresses the military importance of their ...
A tribute to the "new Empire of the British Commonwealth of Nations" and more specifically to King George ...
The construction of a supply route through Burma's jungles and mountains by US troops under General Joseph Stilwell ...
The manufacture of kerosene tins in an Indian factory.
Opening shot of palm trees and bullock cart carrying kerosene tins (62). ...
I. "News from Ceylon." Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, Commander-in-Chief of Ceylon, and Sir Henry Turnbull, Officer in Command, are escorted ...
Kenya's first two years of war.
Opens with establishing shots - Mount Kenya, wild-life, black schoolchildren, white settlers; maps ...
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 ...
India.
A map of India shows the provinces, Bay of Bengal and the Arabian sea. The commentary introduces this ...
(Reel 1) A soldier in uniform stands in heavily frosted yard. View of white cliffs, from ship (Troopship Vienna?) leaving ...
Film account of the part played by the 81st and 82nd (West African) Divisions in the third Arakan ...
Film records and illustrates a BBC broadcast by West Indians in Britain to explain to the British people ...