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Two days of continuous rain reduce the roads to a sea of mud, making driving conditions challenging, around ...
The Nawab of Bhopal, Hamidullah Khan, visits Imphal airfield at sunset.
The Nawab (an honorary Air Commodore) is greeted ...
Views of a troopship convoy to Singapore, views of the city, and Allied prisoners liberated from Changi prison ...
Demonstrating the difficulty of operating aircraft and airfield life under monsoon conditions at Imphal in Manipur, India.
Shot of ...
RAF Repair Units clear bomb debris from Rangoon, Burma, while transport aircraft fly despite atrocious monsoon weather.
Bomb damage ...
Reel 1: Views from the Penang Hill Railway. The carriage passes a signboard with a (long) list of rules for ...
Reel 1:Air Marshal Coryton, Air Commodore the Earl of Bandon and Group Captain David seen talking on beach airstrip on ...
Sir Charles Vyner de Windt Brooke, the third Raja (Rajah) of Sarawak (on the island of Borneo) returns ...
Reel 1: At Maymyo (Pyin U Lwin) a quantity of captured Japanese biscuits are distributed to refugees. Shots of biscuits ...
RAF Republic Thunderbolt Mk II fighter-bombers are seen operating from an airstrip at Meiktila, central Burma.
Thunderbolt Mk II ...
A tank track is repaired. A soldier takes a lump hammer to part of the tracks. Damaged bogeys on the ...
After fierce fighting British and Indian soldiers inspect the damage to the town of Tiddim, Burma.
General view of ...
Admirals Harcourt and Fraser, General Festing and Brigadier Hardy, make a tour of inspection of the Hong Kong ...
Film documenting the training of the Kuantan Police force, 'after three and a half years of enforced idleness ...
After crossing the Irrawaddy River, Burma, troops of the 33rd Indian Brigade, 7th Indian Division consolidate the bridgehead ...
Sherman medium tanks of 5th (Probyn's) Horse, 255th Indian Tank Brigade being carried on rafts across the Irrawaddy ...
HMS Roebuck anchors on the Thanzit River (Burma) to disembark troops of 4th Indian Infantry Brigade into LCIs ...
Film showing troops of 2nd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment off duty in Surabaya (Sourabaya/Soerabaja) and a visit by General ...
A Douglas C-54 Skymaster aircraft of the United States Army Air Force arrives at Kallang Airport, Singapore, to ...
Two months after the end of the Battle of Kohima a memorial is unveiled by Lieutenant-General Stopford commander ...
United States Army Air Force General Old, head of Troop Carrier Command, discusses plans for supply and troop ...
Brigadier General William Old, head of Troop Carrier Command, decorates five RAF Wing Commanders with the American Distinguished ...
Film demonstrating the use of a floating dock on the Rangoon river, Burma.
At Rangoon docks a wide shot ...
Part 1: Near Milestone 82 on the Manipur Road a signpost gives the distance to Worcester (5,100 miles, 'no way ...