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Scenes of mortar training, a crashed Japanese bomber, mountainous scenery, a wounded Japanese prisoner and captured equipment, and ...
An Anti-Tank Regiment enjoy the pleasure of an improvised oven and a well-organised post office at their camp ...
With the fall of the Burmese capital Rangoon the Allies stage a victory parade.
A podium with dignitaries and ...
Not long after the liberation of Rangoon, capital of Burma, and the end of the war in Europe, ...
A week before the handover of responsibility for Burma from military to civil administration, a parade is held ...
Burmese villagers of Ywama village, six miles west of Kindaunggyi, north of Taungup in the Arakan, Burma, celebrate ...
Scenes of Allied Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse visiting forward airfields of ...
Visit of the Reverend T Roberts, Society of Jesus, Archbishop of Bombay and Vicar Delegate to His Majesty's ...
United States Army Lieutenant-General Daniel Sultan (Commander of the Burma-India Theatre) arrives in his private Douglas C47 Skytrain ...
Lieutenant-General Leese pays a visit to IV Corps which has been fighting in the Meiktila region of central ...
Lieutenant-General F A M Browning, Chief of Staff of South East Asia Command, visits positions held by the ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, visits the officers and men who helped ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia, and American Lieutenant-General Daniel Sultan visit the ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits IV Indian Corps in Burma.
An ...
Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India, visits RAF 117 Squadron and RAF 194 Squadron (Douglas Dakotas) at Agartala, and ...
The visit of Lieutenant-General Sir William Slim to 2nd Division area at Ondaw, Burma.
Lieutenant-General Sir William Slim, commander ...
Indian Air Force Vultee Vengeance divebombers being serviced before taking off for operations in dusty conditions at Joari ...
Personnel of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force arrive by air at an RAF airfield in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
Distant ...
Reel 1: Two airwomen sunbathing in a garden. Two women in civilian clothes sitting on a gate. A woman mounts ...
Indian Engineers (possibly of 44th Field Park Company) of 5th Indian Division, IV Indian Corps, use bulldozers to ...
Three Douglas Dakota transport planes line up alongside the airstrip and the furthest plane taxis forward. Another Dakota taxis forward ...
Film presumably intended for distribution in RAF camp cinemas in India and Burma illustrates the work done by ...
Reel 1: Aerial footage showing a Royal Candian Air Force (RCAF) Douglas Dakota transport aircraft in flight; the aircraft is ...
Women of the Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma), known as WAS(B)s, provide a mobile canteen service to British and ...
Electrical and Mechanical Engineers salvage damaged civilian motor vehicles in Rangoon, capital of Burma, following its capture by ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Christison KBE CB MC leading a planning conference at Division HQ situated at Myebon, Burma
Present ...