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Signallers of 36th Division seen laying telephone wires from a Brigade HQ to a forward battalion in the ...
A sign reads "Tiddim Bye-Pass (sic). Through Traffic". Indian troops with rifles, picks and shovels walk along a jungle-lined road. ...
Troops of the 5th Indian Division pass through Tiddim, Burma, having taken the town, and move on towards ...
British soldiers and supplies wait on a rough road. A jeep and trailer come along the road; there is a ...
Indian Engineers of 5th Indian Division operate a cable ferry across the Manipur River, India, which is then ...
As tanks and infantry of 5th Indian Division advance towards Tiddim, Burma, Indian Engineers bridge the Beltang Lui ...
Scenes of Burmese civilians receiving medical treatment and air evacuation of British casualties from Mohnyin in northern Burma.
At ...
Air Marshal Coryton, Air Officer Commanding Third Tactical Air Force visits RAF 177 Squadron and RAF 211 Squadron ...
Aircraft dropping supplies by parachute and evacuating wounded in support of 7th Indian Division, Fourteenth Army.
Men of Air ...
Men of 23rd Brigade shown reoccupying the village of Ukhrul in Manipur, India and being resupplied with food ...
Patients board a Handley Page Halifax aircraft for repatriation to the UK at Alipore airfield, Calcutta.
An RAF Avro ...
Documentary scenes showing the process of airfield construction in forward areas.
Various stages in the construction of an airfield, ...
Aerial shots of the damage done to Myitkyina, Burma, by American forces in the area who were shelling the Japanese ...
At a jetty men carry belts of ammunition. The belts are passed below decks. The harbour as the boat leaves. ...
A Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF 230 Squadron and DUKW amphibians are used to evacuate casualties of ...
START 10:33:25 Two Ford 98T 3-ton lorries deliver the performers and prefabricated theatre pavilion belonging to the East Africa Command's ...
START 10:16:29 A morning parade for seven African NCOs and 27 Other Ranks wearing white cook's uniform serving with 10th ...
Scenes of a visit by an Indian Maharajah to an RAF field hospital near Imphal.
The Maharajah arrives by ...
Lord Munster, Under-Secretary of State for India, arrives in the Arakan, Burma
Earl of Munster arriving at an RAF ...
A Japanese prisoner of war (POW) is escorted to a POW cage near Imphal by a number of ...
African troops (askaris), probably of the 11th East African Division, are seen training in jungle country in Ceylon ...
A rough road in countryside. A pall of smoke rises and debris lies around a XXXIII Indian Corps ammunition dump. ...
A mortar battery of 56th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, along with tanks and aircraft, supports an attack on ...
The RAF lead a parade in Calcutta (Kolkata) India, mounted to mark the anniversary of the Battle of ...