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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 ...
Concerted attacks by the RAF and British Army on Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma are seen both from the ...
Troops of 17th Indian Division seen attacking the village of Pyawbwe, on the road to Rangoon, Burma, and ...
Pilots of an Artillery Air Observation Post (AOP) Squadron, attached to 26th Indian Division, practice landing in confined ...
Wide shot showing a very large structure built of Bailey bridging sections. Men of the Madras Sappers and Miners heaving ...
RAF Liberators bomb defences in support of amphibious landings against Rangoon, Burma.
Aerial footage of Spitfires in the distance. ...
His Excellency the Governor-General of Bengal, Mr Richard Gardiner Casey and Lieutenant-General W J ("Bill") Slim visit Mandalay, ...
At 30 West African Field Dressing Station at Kyaukpyu, volunteers from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines give ...
The single remaining span of the Pegu Bridge, originally blown by the British in 1942, is demolished by ...
Gunners of 36th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, equipped with QF 40mm (Bofors) guns, practice loading and unloaded ...
Mandalay, Burma, has been left devastated by the bombing and shelling of the British forces attacking the Japanese.
General ...
17th Indian Division IV Corps on the road between Nyaungu and Meiktila, Burma.
Sherman tanks of Probyn's Horse (5th ...
Troops and armour are carried across the Irrawaddy River, Burma, at Myinze by a mixture of DUKWs and ...
Brigadier Taunton, commander of 80th Indian Brigade (20th Indian Division) arrives at a Japanese airfield in Saigon as ...
Brigadier R G Collingwood, commander of 33rd Brigade (7th Indian Division) holds a conference of officers on the ...
Allied prisoners of war (POWs), recently liberated from Japanese captivity at Rangoon jail, are seen boarding a ship ...
Red and white flag of the Indonesian republic flying. Graffiti reads 'Freedom the glory of any nation'. Small pieces of ...
A football match is played at King's Park, Kowloon, between a team from No. 44 Commando Royal Marines ...
Reel 1: A small motor launch draws alongside a troopship. A Major climbs a staircase up to the deck followed ...
Film about the Allied victory in Burma.
Introduction briefly outlines the geography and climate of Burma, and the extent ...
After the retreating Japanese abandon a trainload of foodstuffs in the face of the advancing 5th Indian Division ...
Scenes of Burmese civilian life in a large village in the Arakan region of Burma, five miles from ...
After the murder of five RAF aircrew and twenty Indian soldiers by Indonesian nationalists, the village of Bekassi (Bekasi) ...
In Surabaya a large pall of smoke hangs over a burning kampong or village. Two Chinese civilians approach carrying their ...
Assembled film story detailing efforts of Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) 435 Squadron to provide rice to isolated ...
Canadian airmen of RCAF 435 Squadon deliver rice to Burmese civilians via the Civil Affairs Service (CAS).
A Royal ...
Canadian airmen of RCAF 435 Squadron deliver rice to Burmese civilians via the Civil Affairs Service (CAS).
Hill feature 676 near Taungtha, north-west of Meiktila, Burma, dominates the road to Meiktila and the Japanese are ...
After the capture of the Ava Bridge and the city of Sagaing in Central Burma officers from the ...
A captured Japanese machine gun is evaluated by British troops for record purposes at Pauktabin, Burma.
A Japanese Type ...
After victory over the Japanese in the battle for Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma Lieutenant-General W J Slim takes ...
Some of the civilian population of Mandalay, Burma, are treated for malnutrition, disease and shrapnel and bullet wounds ...
After driving the Japanese out of the Akyab area of Burma the British-run Civil Affairs unit moves in ...
Film showing various activities of the Civil Affairs Service (Burma) in Mandalay, including collecting weapons, issuing rations and ...
Civilian internees, freed from Japanese captivity at Tavoy (now Dawei) in Lower Burma, arrive by air at Mingaladon ...
Reel 1: Close-up of hands sorting aerial reconnaissance photographs. A man descends a ladder from a tall airfield control tower ...
Motor transport of IV Corps crosses a Bailey bridge near Toungoo (Taungoo) during the Allied drive on Rangoon, ...
Detailed views of many dead Japanese soldiers, following their unsuccessful attack on British Army positions around Meiktila, central ...
Men of the 2nd Reconnaissance Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, effect a deception operation prior to 2nd Division's crossing ...
Watercraft are used to deliver mortar rounds to infantry of 4th Battalion, 1st Gurkha Rifles (33rd Brigade, 7th ...
A young girl suffering from yaws, a tropical bacterial infection, also known as polypapilloma tropicum. Close-up of the girl. A ...
With the surrender of Japan, the guerilla Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) is disbanded.
A saluting base in Kuala ...
With the surrender of Japan, the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) is disbanded.
Civilian procession with banners, crowd and ...
Whilst visiting XV Indian Corps area in Arakan (Burma) the Duke of Devonshire pays a visit to the ...
Sixteen African chiefs, the heads of tribes represented in 11th East African Division fighting in Burma, are received ...
British troops of 4th Indian Infantry Brigade under the command of Brigadier Forman leave Kyaukpyu (Burma) on the ...