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A jeep railway is operated by men of 36th Division near Sahmaw in northern Burma.
A jeep, fitted with ...
Part 1: Jeeps with trailers cross a Bailey bridge. A sign reads 'Speeders beware! Mark my words / Wait and ...
Signallers of 36th Division seen laying telephone wires from a Brigade HQ to a forward battalion in the ...
Medium guns are fired on positions on the road between Pindale and Mahlaing, north of Meiktila, Burma, in ...
I. 21 December. Opening with shots of African sappers unloading folding boats from a truck, the film shows the men ...
A sign reads "Tiddim Bye-Pass (sic). Through Traffic". Indian troops with rifles, picks and shovels walk along a jungle-lined road. ...
Troops of the 5th Indian Division pass through Tiddim, Burma, having taken the town, and move on towards ...
British soldiers and supplies wait on a rough road. A jeep and trailer come along the road; there is a ...
Indian Engineers of 5th Indian Division operate a cable ferry across the Manipur River, India, which is then ...
As tanks and infantry of 5th Indian Division advance towards Tiddim, Burma, Indian Engineers bridge the Beltang Lui ...
As part of IV Corps' drive on Rangoon, capital of Burma, 123rd Brigade of 5th Indian Division occupy ...
Sherman tanks and troops from the 1st Battalion the Burma Regiment proceeding up beach for an attack on ...
7th Indian Division of IV Corps prepare to set up a beachhead across the Irrawaddy River, to coincide ...
At the RAF's 81 Mobile Field Hospital, operating at Seletar in Singapore, both British servicemen and Japanese prisoners ...
Troops from 82nd West African Division arrive at Ru-Ywa, Burma, by boat and are met by Major-General Stockwell ...
82nd West African Division move their headquarters to the banks of the Dalet river, about a mile north ...
RAF airmen, stationed at Kai Tak aerodrome, enjoy a day off work in Hong Kong.
Landscape view of Kai ...
Air Marshal Garrod, acting Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, visits RAF squadrons at forward airstrips at Tabingaung and Onbauk, Burma.
Air ...
Scenes of operations from forward airstrips near Mandalay, Burma, and scenes of bomb damage to buildings and infrastructure ...
Indian Engineers of the Bengal Sappers and Miners are seen at work clearing Japanese aerial bombs used as ...
A low-altitude aerial survey of bomb damage in and around Maymyo (now Pyin U Lwin), Burma.
Low altitude (c.100-ft) ...
Artillery and air strikes are used to assist an attack by 17th Indian Division on Japanese held positions ...
Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, Allied Air Commander-in-Chief of South East Asia Command and Air Commodore the ...
Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Sir Keith Park, Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, visits Hong Kong.
A bare-metal RAF ...