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The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits officers and men of 3rd Special ...
On 17 July 1944 the greatest barrage ever laid down on a single target took place when one ...
As the fight begins to take Burma back from the Japanese the Chindits mount long range patrols in ...
Scenes of the first Women's Auxiliary Air Force personnel arriving in Bombay and sightseeing in Delhi.
Troopship approaches dockside ...
The Nawab of Bhopal, Hamidullah Khan, visits Imphal airfield at sunset.
The Nawab (an honorary Air Commodore) is greeted ...
Demonstrating the difficulty of operating aircraft and airfield life under monsoon conditions at Imphal in Manipur, India.
Shot of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Part 1: Near Milestone 82 on the Manipur Road a signpost gives the distance to Worcester (5,100 miles, 'no way ...
Scenes of mortar training, a crashed Japanese bomber, mountainous scenery, a wounded Japanese prisoner and captured equipment, and ...
An Anti-Tank Regiment enjoy the pleasure of an improvised oven and a well-organised post office at their camp ...
Scenes of Allied Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse visiting forward airfields of ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia, and American Lieutenant-General Daniel Sultan visit the ...
Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India, visits RAF 117 Squadron and RAF 194 Squadron (Douglas Dakotas) at Agartala, and ...
Indian Air Force Vultee Vengeance divebombers being serviced before taking off for operations in dusty conditions at Joari ...
Three Douglas Dakota transport planes line up alongside the airstrip and the furthest plane taxis forward. Another Dakota taxis forward ...
Film presumably intended for distribution in RAF camp cinemas in India and Burma illustrates the work done by ...
Women of the Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma), known as WAS(B)s, provide a mobile canteen service to British and ...
Film about the Axis air offensive against Malta.
British supply effort, upon which the island is dependent, is rendered ...
I. 21 December. Opening with shots of African sappers unloading folding boats from a truck, the film shows the men ...
Reel 1 (AYY 294-1) Africans in shirts and shorts carry sacks of cocoa beans on their heads. The sacks are ...