I. ALIGARH UNIVERSITY'S 1000 OFFICERS FOR THE INDIAN FIGHTING SERVICES

I. ALIGARH UNIVERSITY'S 1000 OFFICERS FOR THE INDIAN FIGHTING SERVICES - It was the first time that General Auchinleck had seen Aligarh but not by any means his first contact with it. One thousand of its ex-students are serving in India's armed forces. First glimpse of the university is picturesque, and so is the first glimpse of the Boy Scout's Guard of Honour. Surely that's the most sumptuous boy scout uniform in the world. The C-in-C met the students in the University Hall. Meeting students can sometimes be very rough going for distinguished visitors, but on this occasion the C-in-C was received with uproarious enthusiasm.

II. GALLANTRY IN ACTION MAJOR GENERAL NICHOLSON

II. GALLANTRY IN ACTION: THE SILVER STAR FOR MAJOR GENERAL NICHOLSON - 'By direction of the President'. So ran the official announcement from Washington which brought these officers together in New Delhi to do honour to General Nicholson. Stilwell's Deputy commander pinned the Silver Star to the General's uniform, in recognition of what he did at Kasserine Pass in Tunis. For bravery under enemy fire; for courage and inspired leadership.

III. INDIAN DOCTORS ROLL UP FOR WAR SERVICE

III. INDIAN DOCTORS ROLL UP FOR WAR SERVICE - They all might have wonderful bedside manners, but that won't do now they're in the army. So here they are in Poona to learn how to be soldiers. Some of them seem to have forgotten their uniforms, but that one hasn't forgotten his little bag. They're taking some of their own advice - a little exercise in the morning, and then to work. First they're taught the soldier's unemotional view of a battle, plans, dispositions, lines of communications and the rest. Meanwhile stretcher bearers take the plunge and get right down to the actualities of war - learning how to move wounded men on the battlefield, where a missed foothold might mean the loss of two lives, yours and your injured comrade. But soon everybody's feeling at home, with patients to prod and make say 99. With new and exciting discoveries that, as their Commanding Officer Colonel Basu, tells them, war always brings in its train. That's one good thing that comes out of a war - a generation of doctors who have had experience that would have taken them two peace time working lives to gather.

IV. WRESTLING FOR THE RED CROSS

IV. WRESTLING FOR THE RED CROSS - Bombay's been raising money for the Red Cross with a wrestling show, and Sir Leonard Stone met the champions. Sir Leonard is Chief Justice so I suppose he was there to see fair play. He saw plenty. The Governor cut the rope of flowers, gave a word 'GO' and quickly retired from the ring. On my right Hamida Junior, and my left Nabi Bux. That's the referee. Don't let him worry you - he's only there to sign the death certificates. He's been watching Uday Shankar. Next Hamida Senior and Arjun Singh. In wrestling you've got to use your head, if you can't use your own, use your opponent's. next Goonga challenged Gora Singh. Singh didn't hit the floor, bits of the floor hit him. Then Himam Bux asked Gama if he might have the pleasure of this dance. And then Evan Scott and F B Tigerwood gave an exhibition of good, clean sport. Well, good sport, well, sport. Well, they gave an exhibition, anyway. And that, with the prize giving, brought the show to a close. The wrestlers had not only given the Red Cross a good deal of money - they'd given the nurses some useful practice, as well.

V. DESPATCH RIDERS READY FOR DUTY ON ANY FRONT

V. DESPATCH RIDERS READY FOR DUTY ON ANY FRONT - Canadian Despatch Riders make a final test run before going overseas. Specially trained for service on any front, they drive their motorcycles over the roughest terrain. Today, motorcycle troops are the war's roughest riders.

VI. AIR TAXIS RESCUE SERVICE IN ARAKAN

VI. AIR TAXIS RESCUE SERVICE IN ARAKAN - They've just got a message from the front. A party of our men are isolated, but not from Air Supply. Back at base, all the things the Japs are hoping they'll never get - ammunition, food, medical supplies - are being loaded into shock proof containers, ready for delivery by parachute. Pilots pin-point their maps with the spot where our men are holding out, with only one hope; that this plane will get through, bring them the means to live and fight. Over the Arakan, over Jap territory - the supply plane runs the gauntlet of the Japanese ground defences. Over the target, and the supplies go down; in this lot are included not only arms and ammunition, but chocolate, goods, cigarettes. But parachutes can't get casualties away. For them, hope comes in the shape of a flying jeep, part of the daring ambulance taxi service now operating on the Burma Front. Landing on a clearing that would wreck a larger plane, the flying jeep takes aboard casualties whose only chance of pulling through is expert medical aid at base. The little plane takes off, and then begins its dangerous flight across Jap-held jungle. It's too small to carry arms, if it's attacked, it can't hit back. But it gets through. The service has flown hundreds of trips and only one has been lost. Stretcher cases are transferred to larger ambulance planes. The little planes, feeding the big transports that cannot hope to reach beleaguered men, save lives every day by their courage and daring. At airfields near base, wounded men are transferred to hospitals, owing their lives to the pilots of the flying ambulances of the Arakan.