A Royal Indian Navy motor launch, patrolling coastal rivers on Ramree Island off Burma, searches for Japanese stragglers with the aid of a captured Japanese medical officer.

Onboard a Royal Indian Navy vessel patrolling a chaung (river or watercourse) in the Ramree area two officers, one British and one Indian, cross the deck. The two officers in discussion with two others. Approaching another motor launch. Panning view of a treeline in the distance. Two officers with binoculars. Continuing panning shot; reflections suggest the water is very still. An Indian sailor has a finger bandaged by a captured Japanese doctor. Local refugees. Their boat under tow. The Japanese officer speaking with officers and smoking a cigarette. Japanese officer with back to camera. A loudspeaker (being used to broadcast the Japanese officer's exhortations to surrender). Views of mangroves growing at water's edge (documentation suggests Japanese bodies are visible but they are not readily apparent). Another vessel. Japanese officer with a British officer who is smoking a pipe. Another view of the chaung. Loudspeaker. Local people on deck, with sailors standing by a 40mm gun and a figure (apparently a Japanese soldier who surrendered) asleep on the deck. Japanese with officers. Other vessel (landing craft?).

Notes

A confusingly incoherent film without the structure suggested by the surviving documentation. The Japanese doctor, a captain, had been captured after his party was intercepted by the launch while trying to cross a chaung. The captain of the launch is named as S J Barden, who while a civilian was able to speak Japanese as a result of a period spent in captivity in Japanese-occupied China.

By the time this film was shot Allied forces were driving Japanese troops across Ramree and into the surrounding swamps, where they could be ignored. According to a widely repeated story, hundreds of Japanese were killed in these swamps by saltwater crocodiles.

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