HMS Eskimo, a Royal Navy Tribal Class destroyer, bombards Japanese shore positions while troops make an amphibious landing in the Letpan area of the Arakan region of Burma.

On the foredeck of a Tribal Class destroyer an Indian (sailor?) Afzal Din of Hoshiarpur, Punjab province, smokes a hookah pipe. He is surrounded by an excited crowd of British sailors, some of whom sample his pipe for themselves. Indian troops are shown a 4.7-inch gun by a (Royal Marine?) gunner. Underway looking towards another destroyer. Looking forwards from rear superstructure; a White Ensign flies behind a funnel. Looking forward with a quadruple 2-pounder 'pom-pom' in foreground. Good views of HMS Eskimo. Eskimo opens fire on Japanese positions. A light aircraft (a Stinson Sentinel?) passes overhead. A landing ship comes alongside. Indian infantry of 26th Indian Division transfer to the landing ship. Various types of landing craft, including Landing Craft Mechanised 1317 (LCM) passing and heading ashore up a chaung (river of watercourse). Hawker Hurricane fighter-bombers (of either RAF or Indian Air Force) overhead. Beached LCMs. Men going ashore from a Landing Craft Infantry (Large) (LCI(L)). Indian infantry passing camera.

Notes

The Letpan landings were one of a series of amphibious operations by XV Indian Corps designed to prevent the escape south of Japanese forces into central Burma. For other footage of these landings, see related items.