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Operations by RAF De Havilland Mosquito aircraft at Joari airfield, east of Cox's Bazaar, India, and paratroopers descending ...
Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command chairs a meeting with other senior British and American ...
The new Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, arrives at Ratmalana airport in Columbo, Ceylon (Sri ...
British troops of No. 5 Army Commando round up Japanese troops at Fanling, 20 miles from Kowloon, before ...
At an East African Reinforcement Camp an entertainment unit stages a show for troops of 11th East African ...
Men of No. 6 Air Formation Signals RAF seen at work laying and repairing telephone lines at Mingaladon ...
Shot on 16 September 1945: three Japanese representatives of the Ipoh garrison pass camera. Interior footage; the Japanese officers meet ...
British troops of 5th Parachute Brigade round up the Japanese garrison of Singkep Island, off Sumatra south of ...
British troops of 4th Indian Infantry Brigade proceed from Kyaukpyu on Ramree Island, Burma up the Thanzit River.
Indian ...
Variety of scenes of an advance by 5th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Division, near Mount Popa (approximately 40 miles ...
After nationalist disturbances close the roads to Saigon, capital of French Indo-China, a convoy named 'Operation Saltmeat' is ...
Troops of 25th Indian Division make an amphibious landing on the coast of Malaya at Morib as part ...
With the surrender of Japan, troops of 23rd Indian Division mount an amphibious landing near Port Dickson on ...
British tanks and troops move forward to capture a Japanese position just north of Mandalay, Burma.
19th Indian Division ...
After the liberation of Rangoon, British troops of 36th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, go sightseeing and visit ...
The beach at Kyaukpyu on the northern tip of Ramree Island, Burma, is used as a repair base ...
British actress Patricia Burka, serving with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA), entertains airmen at Sadaung, Burma.
Patricia Burke ...
Stage and film star Patricia Burke gives an impromptu show to British troops while she is the guest ...
Film showing a number of slogans, posters and graffiti during rising political unrest in Batavia, Dutch East Indies ...
Footage depicting the unsettled political climate in Bandoeng (Bandung) in central Java, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia).
Slow pan left-to-right ...
The army use deceptive tactics in order to mislead the Japanese in preparation for the crossing of the ...
A few miles from Kyaukpyu on Ramree Island, Burma, the men of 123rd Mechanical Equipment Corps and 702nd ...
Three senior air officers talking in front of a parked North American Harvard aircraft; one is an Air Marshal (possibly ...
1,403 freed Allied prisoners of war and civilian internees board the RMS Orbita at Rangoon, Burma, for repatriation, ...