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Footage from the Battle of Surabaya (Sourabaya/Soerabaja) in Java, Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia), including mortar and artillery fire, ...
Chinese refugees flee the fighting in Sourabaya (Surabaya/Soerabaja) in eastern Java, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia).
On a street in ...
A fire blazes at the petrol dump of Kallang Airport, Singapore, and firefighters work to extinguish the flames.
Large ...
RAF Republic Thunderbolt fighter-bombers use napalm against Kangaw, and firebombs are tested at Cox's Bazaar, India (Bangladesh).
Kangaw, on ...
At Yindaw, Burma, 7.2-inch howitzers of 8th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, are seen firing on Japanese positions.
Series of ...
Wide shot showing a jetty at Seletar naval base with a boat tied up alongside. On the jetty sacks of ...
The distribution of supplies to local Burmese people in Lingadipa, Burma.
The men of 100th Brigade 20th Indian Division ...
Shot by Sergeant Hammond: wideshots of the game in progress, shot from the back of a lorry, giving a view ...
Dutch civilians, presumably recently released from Japanese internment, play airmen of RAF Batavia at football.
Footage of the game ...
Islanders play football against an Army team on Home Island, part of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands attol.
The game ...
Scenes of two football matches on the Indo-Burma border, including England versus Scotland and a local RAF team ...
Following closely behind the advancing British troops in Burma the Madras Sappers and Miners build an airstrip at ...
Indian Air Force 1 Squadron is presented with a Japanese sword in recognition for its service to Fourteenth ...
RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft deliver supplies 'over the Hump' of the Himalayas from Dum Dum, India to ...
An edited production by the SEAC Film Unit (British) shows how 'SEAC', the newspaper of South East Asia ...
Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII of Siam (Thailand), is received at a garden party thrown by Lord Louis Mountbatten ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia, visits east African troops in Rangoon, capital ...
General Sir George Giffard, commander of 11th Army Group, visits 25th Indian Division during a tour of inspection ...
With the Japanese capitulation General Heitaro Kimura and his staff surrender their swords to their British counterparts in ...
Officers, including Lieutenant-General Slim, from the South East Asia Command gather for a conference in the jungle near ...
General Sir George Giffard, Commander-in-Chief 11th Army Group, inspects his forward troops near Tamu on the Indian-Burmese border.
General ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia, visits troops on garrison duty on Labuan ...
General William Slim, General Officer Commanding 14th Army arrives at Imphal airstrip and chats to Air Commodore S F Vincent, ...