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Footage from the Battle of Surabaya (Sourabaya/Soerabaja) in Java, Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia), including mortar and artillery fire, ...
Chinese refugees flee the fighting in Sourabaya (Surabaya/Soerabaja) in eastern Java, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia).
On a street in ...
A fire blazes at the petrol dump of Kallang Airport, Singapore, and firefighters work to extinguish the flames.
Large ...
RAF Republic Thunderbolt fighter-bombers use napalm against Kangaw, and firebombs are tested at Cox's Bazaar, India (Bangladesh).
Kangaw, on ...
At Yindaw, Burma, 7.2-inch howitzers of 8th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, are seen firing on Japanese positions.
Series of ...
Wide shot showing a jetty at Seletar naval base with a boat tied up alongside. On the jetty sacks of ...
The distribution of supplies to local Burmese people in Lingadipa, Burma.
The men of 100th Brigade 20th Indian Division ...
Shot by Sergeant Hammond: wideshots of the game in progress, shot from the back of a lorry, giving a view ...
Dutch civilians, presumably recently released from Japanese internment, play airmen of RAF Batavia at football.
Footage of the game ...
Islanders play football against an Army team on Home Island, part of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands attol.
The game ...
Scenes of two football matches on the Indo-Burma border, including England versus Scotland and a local RAF team ...
Following closely behind the advancing British troops in Burma the Madras Sappers and Miners build an airstrip at ...