As British troops of 2nd Division advance across the Shwebo plain they pass through the devastated village of Taze, a man wounded near Myingatha is evacuated,

At Taze; Jeep with canvas tilt passes camera. Domestic wreckage and litter. Buildings and trees at roadside. Lorry driving on dusty road. Wreckage with pagoda spires in background. Bell hanging at a pagoda. Chinthes (mythical Burmese guardian creatures) at temple entrance. Chinthes with spires. British troops around a stretcher with a wounded man; wounded on the track to Myingatha railway station, he is put onto the bonnet of a jeep and driven away. A jeep ambulance makes a jolting reverse and the casualty is put onto it. The casualty is transferred again to a larger ambulance. At a tented Advanced Dressing Station (ADS) a Royal Army Medical Corps captain fills a syringe. Treating the casualty; one man stares intently at the camera. Sign showing the way to the ADS. Views of a shoot by a 25-pounder field gun. Gun in the open with two small spires. Noncommissioned officer shouting fire. Dumped empty shell cases. Shots of men digging trenches. British troops of 5th Brigade (2nd Division) passing on dusty track near the Mu Canal. Tracked Universal carrier drives along a low embankment or ridge. In Shwebo: smouldering wrecked buildings with British troops passing through. Troops passing damaged buildings, some of them substantial. Universal carrier passes towing limbers. Troops at roadside. Carrier approaching with local people watching. A bespectacled civilian points something out to an Indian officer. Local people and close-up young boy. An apparently intact small, square, white pagoda. Sign in Japanese and Burmese. Crowd of local people passing. Ox carts passing. Street with thatched buildings; a lorry drives towards camera and a Douglas Dakota transport aircraft passes low overhead. Views of damaged buildings. A timbered Tudor-style building, apparently previously a Japanese military police headquarters. Loading ox carts with salvaged material. Post with Japanese script (grave marker?). Burma Regiment officer of the Burma Intelligence Corps conferring with civilians over map. Close-up map; Shwebo is clearly marked. Corpse.