Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits IV Indian Corps in Burma.

An RAF Stinson Sentinel light aircraft, serial KJ376, lands on an airstrip at Pegu (Bago, 50 miles north east of Rangoon). General Leese disemplanes and is greeted by Lieutenant-General Frank Messervy, commander of IV Indian Corps, who carries a slung M1 Carbine. Leese talking with officers of 5th Indian Division; note the 'ball of fire' divisional insignia. Talking with officers of 161 Brigade (5th Indian Division) on parade near a pagoda. Leese addresses men of 2nd Battalion, the Royal Berkshire Regiment, part of 98 Brigade of 19th Indian Division (the 'Dagger Division'). Addressing men of 115 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, on the Mawchi Road; their camouflaged gun emplacements can be seen in the background. Leese talking with Messervy and others on a Bailey bridge on the Mawchi Road.

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Sir Oliver Leese would shortly be replaced as Commander-in-Chief ALFSEA by William Slim (soon to be promoted to full General) following an ugly dispute over command of 14th Army for the upcoming Operation Zipper, the amphibious invasion of Malaya.