Reel 1: Various angles of a 25-pounder field gun being fired. British troops of 10th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment moving through jungle. Down a track. Wounded man on a stretcher. More of men moving through jungle, giving a good impression of the thick vegetation. Men resting on a bank by a track. They resume the march. US Tenth Air Force P-47s overhead. Wounded British soldier on a jeep ambulance. British troops digging in. Digging in with a Vickers machine gun ready nearby. Brigadier Aslett (commander, 72 Indian Infantry Brigade) in a jeep. More digging. A wounded British soldier has his arm dressed. Another wounded has his wrist bandaged. A British soldier of 10th Gloucesters, killed in action by a Japanese hand grenade while defending his battalion's perimeter, is buried in a service conducted by Father Relph, 72 Brigade Roman Catholic padre. Shots of the service before the grave is filled in. Dead Japanese soldier. Field conference; Brigadier Aslett speaks with Brigadier Stockwell (commander, 29 Brigade) Troops of 29 Brigade cross a stream. Crossing grassland. A field hospital, run by 60 Portable Surgical Hospital, US Army; Major C J Sprunk (commanding officer) operates on a British Army major, assisted by Captain C P Peck, and anaesthetist Captain D L Bashaw (seen administering chloroform?). British troops moving up. Troops (of 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers?) passing; some carry stretchers and they are watched by their commanding officer Lieutenant-Colonel Jones (?). Troops of 2nd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment cross a shallow stream; bullock carts laden with equipment follow. Troops of 1st Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers advancing through an area of shattered woodland as they enter Pinwe. Moving through undergrowth; an American soldier is present. An officer, identified on the dopesheet as Major Morrogh Ryan (battalion commander), with Captain Hare (company commander) and platoon commanders in Pinwe. Close-up of Ryan. Royal Scots Fusiliers crossing a bridge and climbing a hill. They enter the wreckage of Pinwe. A file of the Royal Scots led through Pinwe by Pipe Major J McMenemy. More shots of the piper. A soldier, cigarette in mouth, digging with his entrenching tool. Setting up a Vickers gun. Royal Welch moving. 'Pinwe' railway sign with wagon in background. Railway lines with two wrecked locomotives. High over the line (from a signal box?) pan as a jeep drives through an area of shattered trees.

Reel 2: Gunners working on a 3.7-inch howitzer. Removing the sight. Covering the muzzle. Manhandling the gun to a waiting vehicle. Guns being towed. Guns unhitched and prepared for action. Aerial views, from an L-5 Sentinel light aeroplane, of the railway line with shell craters and crashed wagons. Air-to-air views of another Sentinel, serial 298846. Various views of a Vickers gun being fired.

In the 'Railway Corridor' of northern Burma, troops of 36th Division advance on Pinwe.

Notes

Gives a good impression of the terrain and conditions of the fighting during this phase of the war in northern Burma.