Scenes at an airfield near Toungoo (Taungoo), Burma, shortly after its capture from troops of the Japanese 33rd Army.

View of the airstrip with a number of parked vehicles. One of them is a Chevrolet CMP lorry marked as an ambulance. A man leaves a small bunker. Views of the airfield including a ramshackle-looking wooden control tower. A hangar apparently intact. A man enters a Japanese bunker and looks at a blackboard map of the airfield. The Japanese text on the head of the board reads 'Air Defence Fortress Map February 1945 - Tongkoo'. Two men look at a board, possibly a chart or map of some sort. A man climbs a large earth mound.

Notes

Toungoo, 140 miles north of Rangoon and on the Sittang River, was a strategic location as fighter aircraft operating from its airfield (and the nearby fields of Kalaywa and 'Tennant') would be essential for any amphibious landing against Rangoon. RAF aircraft were soon operating from these fields, with the Hurricane Mk IICs of RAF 60 Squadron arriving at Kalaywa and 'Tennant' on 28 April 1945.

The town was captured on the day this film was shot after a race to take it by both British and Japanese troops. In the event, harassing action by the Karen Guerillas so delayed the Japanese that the 5th Indian Division were able to win this 'race', catching the Japanese in such disarray that (according to Lieutenant-General Slim's memoir) the leading tank actually ran over a Japanese traffic policeman, who was still directing traffic when they arrived.