Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, arrives in Rangoon, Burma, for a tour of inspection.

Mountbatten gets out of a staff car with Lieutenant-General Sir Montagu Stopford, the head of Burma Command. West African troops of 4th West African Infantry Brigade present arms. Mountbatten at the salute by a flagpole decorated with a chinthe, or mythical Burmese guardian creature, the emblem of 12th Army. Mountbatten's staff car, escorted by military police jeep, draws to a halt at 552 Indian Infantry Workshops, Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Mountbatten is met by Colonel Fisher, 12th Army's Deputy Director Mechanical Engineering. Close-up of Mountbatten speaking to an officer. He inspects a radio under repair. Mountbatten and Stopford watch a jeep being assembled by a team of Indian Engineers. Mountbatten addresses Indian troops. Mountbatten's motorcade arrives at a Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve Coastal Forces base. He salutes a guard. Mountbatten inspects the guard, escorted by Captain K S Lyle, Naval Officer in Charge Rangoon. He meets senior officers. He goes aboard a (probably Fairmile B class) Harbour Defence Motor Launch, ML 437, and is piped aboard. Mountbatten addresses sailors from the deck of ML 437.

Notes

Other units named include HQ Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC), No.1 Road Transport Column and 86 Company RIASC.

For more footage of a jeep being rapidly assembled, see related items.

Extensively covered by other British Army cameramen. See related items.