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Reel 1: Shot looking through a set of gates towards a large white building (probably Government House); a sentry is ...
Victory parade and celebrations in Hong Kong after the surrender of Japanese forces and its liberation by British ...
Party of Japanese medical orderlies wearing gauze face masks. Two Japanese with notebooks; one of them is making notes. Medics ...
Two former prisoners of war, one British and one Indian, receive medical treatment at a hospital in Bangkok, ...
RAF Hawker Hurricane fighter-bombers conduct an exercise in close air support near Meiktila, central Burma.
A plume of dust ...
Local Chinese civilians take part in an identity parade in order to identify Japanese troops suspected of war ...
Scenes Vengeance divebombers of 8 Squadron Indian Air Force in action.
Exterior shot of a building, presumably the briefing ...
Scenes at an Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers' workshop of 123rd Brigade, 5th Indian Division, and views of ...
In the ruins of factories on Akyab Island (Sittwe), Burma, enough material and equipment was found by the ...
Film showing vehicle maintenance activities at a field workshop in Burma.
An officer seen using a loud hailer. A ...
Indian Sappers and Miners of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen at work with shovels, picks and ...
Hindu troops of 1st Battalion 19th Hyderabad Regiment, stationed in Saigon (French Indo-China, now Vietnam) celebrate the festival ...
Indian troops, many of whom had been overseas for several years serving in Africa and the Mediterranean, are ...
Scenes of Inland Water Transport operations on the River Irrawaddy in Burma.
A number of local rafts on the ...
Reel 1: A Ramp Cargo Lighter (RCL) being launched. A man paints an identity number (N-226) onto a Higgins barge ...
Troops of 2nd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment, 4th Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment and the 4th Battalion 1st Gurkha ...
Reel 1 Part 1, shot by Sergeant Wilson at Dalla dockyard, Rangoon: shot of the name 'Noel K Adam' above ...
Reel 1: (Diego Garcia) Aerial view of a ship at sea and of an island in the Indian Ocean, probably ...
Motor transport of IV Indian Corps seen passing through the Oktwin area, south of Toungoo, on the road ...
Following the breakout of Japanese forces in the Pegu Yomas, mortars, armoured cars, tanks and infantry are deployed ...
The Japanese Army constructed a road through the Arakan, Burma, from the An Valley to Taungup and Prome ...
Japanese emissaries arrive at Mingaladon airfield, near Rangoon, Burma, to begin preliminary surrender negotiations.
At Mingaladon airfield, Rangoon, a ...
Japanese delegates, led by Lieutenant-General ...