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Reel 1: Men gathered around sketch map. Close-up with finger pointing out various locations. A Burmese instructor in front of ...
RAF personnel leave Rangoon, Burma, by ship for leave, postings, and repatriation.
Rangoon harbour; a temporary bridge leads to ...
Reel 1: Supermarine Spitfire with control tower in background. Hawker Hurricanes with propellors spinning before taxiing away past camera. Douglas ...
Several British planes carry out dive bombing attacks in the distance and smoke is seen rising from the area.
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Mandalay, Burma's ...
Men of the RAF Regiment man gun positions on troopships in the Rangoon River before sailing for Singapore.
RAF ...
Men of an RAF Regiment Light Anti-Aircraft Squadron make an amphibious landing at Rangoon, Burma.
Group Captain Harold Pleasance, ...
The reopening of the Kowloon-Lo Wu railway line gets off to a decidedly mixed start, and RAF men ...
An RAF Repair and Salvage Unit recovers a crashed Hawker Hurricane fighter-bomber near Sagaing, Burma.
A jeep and a ...
Reel 1: Docks on the Hooghly River, Calcutta; river craft are unloaded. Two men stand on top of a lorry ...
Scenes of RAF anti-mosquito operations around Imphal, India.
Three Hawker Hurricanes overhead spraying kerosene and DDT. Shot of two ...
Air Commodore Mellersh RAF, Air Commander Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command and Air Vice Marshal Stevens of ...
In order to get the railways of Burma in working condition a company of Indian Engineers salvages rolling ...
Lieutenant-General W J Slim leads a flag unfurling ceremony at inside Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma, after British troops ...
An experimental Type B Ramp Cargo Lighter (RCL) is assembled and launched, with some difficulty, on the River ...
Scenes of airfield preparation, fighter and RAF Regiment operations and airfield life on Ramree Island, Burma.
Panning shots of ...
Japanese General Heitaro Kimura and senior staff officers surrender their swords at the headquarters of Twelfth Army at ...
In Rangoon, capital of Burma, Indian other ranks (IORs) of 60 Indian Workshop Company of the Indian Electrical ...
Rear Admiral C H J Harcourt, Senior British Naval Officer Hong Kong, inspects airmen and aircraft of RAF ...
British engineers and infantry of 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers (29th Brigade, 36th Division) seen at work on ...
Airmen enjoy some time on leave in Bombay (Mumbai), India, while awaiting embarkation for return to the United ...
Reel 1: Medium shot showing a tent, a look-out post up a tree, and two parked vehicles. One of the ...
Harbour of Akyab Island, Burma, with Merchant Marine ships anchored offshore and the unloading of supplies to landing ...
Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and civilian internees are liberated from Japanese captivity and evacuated by RAF aircraft ...