Troops of the 5th Indian Division pass through Tiddim, Burma, having taken the town, and move on towards Kennedy Peak.

A General Grant tank passes on a road with the town of Tiddim in the background. A second tank passes. A Grant tank advances along a very heavily rutted road through the jungle. A Valentine tank fitted with a scissors bridge comes towards camera. A bulldozer smoothes the road. Two shirtless soldiers walk towards camera with Tiddim in the background. Soldiers walk in twos along the road; some carry spades and picks. Three jeeps with trailers head off up the track which winds up a hillside. A truck passes a mule train. Several jeeps with trailers pass. Trucks and jeeps drive over heavily rutted roads. Soldiers lift a tin bath off the back of a jeep (the bath looks as if it could do with a good clean). On board a tank, various shots of the crew in their positions. A General Grant tank comes round a corner in the jungle and is swathed in dust. A Grant tank drives over the camera in the middle of the road. Same shot. Views from the back of a jeep as it drives along. Soldiers from 351st Anti-Tank Battery 56th Anti-Tank Regiment sitting on the roadside are given copies of the SEAC newspaper which they begin to read. A destroyed Japanese tank is climbed over by a British soldier; Kennedy Peak is swathed in cloud behind the tank.

Notes

On 8 July 1944 the Japanese Army finally abandoned its attempts to capture Imphal. There followed a period of pursuit south along the road from Imphal to Tiddim (along the 'Tiddim Road') 120 miles away. Tiddim itself was occupied on 17 October. Kennedy Peak, at 8,871 feet, was the highest point on the Tiddim Road.

For more footage relating to Tiddim and the Tiddim Road, see related items. The production of the newspaper 'SEAC' can be seen in JFU 164 'Frontline Newspaper'.