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. ...

Concerted attacks by the RAF and British Army on Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma are seen both from the ...

A mortar battery of 56th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, along with tanks and aircraft, supports an attack on ...

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 ...

The RAF lead a parade in Calcutta (Kolkata) India, mounted to mark the anniversary of the Battle of ...

RAF Liberators bomb defences in support of amphibious landings against Rangoon, Burma.

Aerial footage of Spitfires in the distance. ...

Aerial and ground footage of operations by RAF Bristol Beaufighter fighter-bombers based at Chiringa, Bengal Province, India (Bangladesh).

Aerial ...

His Excellency the Governor-General of Bengal, Mr Richard Gardiner Casey and Lieutenant-General W J ("Bill") Slim visit Mandalay, ...

In Batavia, Dutch East Indies (Jakarta, Indonesia) a parade is mounted in honour of the birthday of Princess ...

A doctor of the Indian Army Medical Corps administers a blood transfusion in the field to a wounded ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, awards medals to members of the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese ...

Allied prisoners of war (POWs), recently liberated from Japanese captivity at Rangoon jail, are seen boarding a ship ...