After the retreating Japanese abandon a trainload of foodstuffs in the face of the advancing 5th Indian Division near Pyu, Burma, local civilians are given permission to help themselves to rice, sugar and flour.

A Bofors gun passes a bullock cart by the roadside. Local civilians filling sacks and baskets with rice. Wide shot; by a railway line (presumably the Rangoon-Mandalay line) a number of buildings have been reduced to shells. A local man filling a sack. Baskets of food are loaded onto a bullock cart. The general scene; a footbridge, abandoned train with spilt rice and local people and bullock carts scattered about. Lorries pass a half-destroyed smouldering building. Railyard and bullock carts.

Notes

Some conflict between sources. The cameraman's dopesheet describes these troops as being of the 17th Indian Division. However, both the official history and Lieutenant-General Slim's memoir designate Pyu as an objective of 5th Indian Division, and as one that the latter not only took but advanced beyond as far as Penwegon. The dopesheet implies that the 17th Division had been first into the town, but the date given is the day after Pyu fell. The discrepancy is possibly a simple mistake on the cameraman's part, or perhaps a piece of dramatic licence.