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Part 1, shot by Sergeant Hewit: View looking down on a Landing Craft Infantry (Large) (LCI(L)) with Indian troops aboard. ...
Part 1, shot by Sergeant Sanders: View from a landing craft with the Singapore skyline on the horizon and Landing ...
Men of 5th Maratha (Mahratta) Regiment reinforce landing sites around Setkhaw, Burma, which were taken during the night ...
British troops of 3rd Special Service Brigade land unopposed on a beach on Akyab Island (Sittwe), in the ...
Signallers of the 9th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment lay a line across the Shweli River, Burma from Battalion ...
Tanks are needed north of Tamandu, Burma, so the Royal Indian Navy transports them along the nearest river ...
Views of a troopship convoy to Singapore, crowds lining the streets, and Allied prisoners liberated from Changi prison ...
While visiting XV Corps area Lieutenant-General M B Burrows flies in to inspect 82nd West African Division on ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Nye (Vice Chief Imperial General Staff) pays a short visit to 82nd West African Division ...
Wide shot showing Lieutenant-General Roberts' staff car arriving outside the Suleiman Building in Kuala Lumpur. He meets the officer commanding. ...
Lieutenant-General Leese and several other officers visit 17th Indian Division at Meiktila, tour the positions of the Royal ...
Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief of Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA) visits the gunners of XV Indian ...
The commander of 14th Army, Lieutenant-General Sir William Slim, launches two warships on the River Chindwin at Kalewa, ...
Lieutenant-General William Slim, commander of 14th Army, arrives at Meiktila, Burma, and holds a conference with other senior ...
Reel 1: Model of India, filmed at low angle with crawl of text; RAF Film Production Unit presents Life in ...
Lord Mountbatten visits a forward airstrip near Mandalay, with scenes of Hawker Hurricane operations and the RAF Regiment.
Hawker ...
Major-General Francis Festing, commander of 36th Division, seen attending a briefing.
High shot looking down as two officers, one ...
Lord Mountbatten inspects tanks left behind by the retreating Japanese forces and then climbs the steps and walks through the ...
Soldiers of 1st Battalion 15th Punjab Regiment march along a rough road past traditional huts in the suburbs ...
As the British Army make their way into Mandalay, Burma, they are re-supplied by air drops from Douglas ...
Soldiers of 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment move through ruined streets in Mandalay, Burma, whilst mortar batteries concentrate ...
British troops of 19th Indian Division begin to fight their way into the northern part of the city ...
The final assault on Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma, from the air takes place and British troops of 19th ...