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Scenes of Burmese civilians receiving medical treatment and air evacuation of British casualties from Mohnyin in northern Burma.
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Air Marshal Coryton, Air Officer Commanding Third Tactical Air Force visits RAF 177 Squadron and RAF 211 Squadron ...
The new Allied Air Commander-in-Chief of South East Asia Command, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, arrives with his ...
Reel 1: A parked RAF Short Stirling transport aircraft with a white-painted Consolidated Liberator behind it. General view of the ...
Aircraft dropping supplies by parachute and evacuating wounded in support of 7th Indian Division, Fourteenth Army.
Men of Air ...
Men of 23rd Brigade shown reoccupying the village of Ukhrul in Manipur, India and being resupplied with food ...
Scenes of RAF Liberator heavy bomber operations over Burma.
RAF Consolidated Liberator heavy bombers of RAF 159 Squadron at ...
Patients board a Handley Page Halifax aircraft for repatriation to the UK at Alipore airfield, Calcutta.
An RAF Avro ...
Gurkha paratroopers seen gearing up and boarding their aircraft before parachuting into action near Rangoon, Burma, as part ...
Documentary scenes showing the process of airfield construction in forward areas.
Various stages in the construction of an airfield, ...
A coordinated attack takes place on Japanese positions along the Pindale to Mahlaing road north of Meiktila. Burma, ...
United States Army Air Force medium bombers attack pockets of Japanese resistance after the capture of Yamethin, Burma.
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Lieutenant-General Raymond Wheeler US Army, is invested as an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE), while ...
Allied prisoners of war, liberated from Japanese captivity, are seen at Kallang airfield, Singapore.
Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de ...
Scenes of an Allied victory parade, mounted in monsoon weather in Rangoon, capital of Burma, on 15 June ...
Scenes of an Allied victory parade, mounted in monsoon weather, in the Burmese capital Rangoon, 15 June 1945.
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Scenes of an Allied victory parade, mounted in monsoon weather in Rangoon, capital of Burma on 15 June ...
Close-ups of senior Allied officers, shot for editing purposes, during an Allied victory parade in Rangoon, Burma.
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Part 1: On the main thoroughfare in Batavia Ambonese troops have established a roadblock and stopped a passing car. The ...
Aerial shots of the damage done to Myitkyina, Burma, by American forces in the area who were shelling the Japanese ...
At a jetty men carry belts of ammunition. The belts are passed below decks. The harbour as the boat leaves. ...
Scenes of Supermarine Sea Otter amphibious biplanes in flight and the burning wreckage of a Sea Otter shot ...
A Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF 230 Squadron and DUKW amphibians are used to evacuate casualties of ...
Troops of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen aboard HMS Prins Albert before making an amphibious landing ...
Troops of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen making an amphibious landing on the banks of the ...
A Gurkha of the 3rd Battalion 2nd Gurkha Rifles has a leg amputated in a field hospital at ...
START 10:33:25 Two Ford 98T 3-ton lorries deliver the performers and prefabricated theatre pavilion belonging to the East Africa Command's ...
START 10:16:29 A morning parade for seven African NCOs and 27 Other Ranks wearing white cook's uniform serving with 10th ...
Scenes of a visit by an Indian Maharajah to an RAF field hospital near Imphal.
The Maharajah arrives by ...
Part of an RAF Wing and an RAF Regiment Squadron moves across some difficult terrain to a new ...
In Saigon, capital of French Indo-China (Vietnam), British, Indian and French troops mark the first Armistice Day since ...
In Singapore an Armistice Day parade is held for the first time since the end of the Japanese ...
Scenes from a commemorative parade and wreath laying at the Cenotaph in Singapore on Armistice Day, 1945.
Troops on ...
32nd Army (Blood) Transfusion Unit work at a forward airfield to save the lives of soldiers from IV ...
French troops under General Leclerc arrive in Saigon to take over military responsibility for Indo-China from 20th Indian ...
British, American, Indian and Chinese personnel released from Japanese captivity in Rangoon arrive by hospital ship in Calcutta.
A ...
Part 1, by Sergeant Clark: Gent steps down from an RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft and is greeted. He talks ...
Lord Munster, Under-Secretary of State for India, arrives in the Arakan, Burma
Earl of Munster arriving at an RAF ...
A battery of the 1st Medium Regiment Royal Artillery in action as support for the beachhead operations of ...
1st Medium Regiment Royal Artillery in action near Myinmu, Burma.
An artillery piece is loaded and fired on Japanese ...
A Japanese prisoner of war (POW) is escorted to a POW cage near Imphal by a number of ...