Off-duty RAF ground crew from a nearby forward airstrip spend a few hours visiting the ancient Burmese capital ...

Part 1, shot on 6 March 1946: Platform sign reads 'Kowloon'. Repeat shot of the sign with pan to a ...

Shot on 23 October 1945: view of Rempang Island from the sea. View of the Japanese naval HQ ship, the ...

Reel 1: Shot from Sunderland of repairs to float and refuelling from DUKW amphibious truck. Airmen hanging washing out on ...

'T for Tommy', a Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF 230 Squadron tasked with delivering rice to Kuantan ...

Film showing a battery of Priest 105mm self-propelled (SP) guns in action at Payagale, and Allied prisoners of ...

Confronted by a blown bridge on the road to Rangoon, capital of Burma, tanks and motor vehicles of ...

A battery of Ordnance SB 4.2-inch mortars firing. At Hlegu chaung (river or watercourse) vehicles are hauled up the riverbank. ...

Film shot by Sergeant Abbott: Aerial footage; the camera looks through the windscreen of an RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft ...

Just days after the capture of Maymyo (now Pyin U Lwin), central Burma, the town is used as ...

20th Indian Division formed a bridgehead over the River Irrawaddy, crossing at Myinmu, Burma, on the night of ...

Reel 1: RAF Hawker Hurricane fighter-bombers overhead. Lee medium tanks driving along a dusty road. A Lee passes with infantry ...

The reinforcement of beachheads after a night attack across the Irrawaddy River, Burma.

Mortars explode and boats are used ...

At a Traffic Control Post on the River Irrawaddy material is organised for ferry crossings to support a ...

Gunners of the Royal Artillery take up position by the village of Pinkan, Burma, and prepare to shell ...

Crew of an Ordnance QF 25-pounder field gun prepare emplacements in Kota, Northern Burma.

The guns of the 156th ...

25-pounder field guns of 18th Indian Field Battery, 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, are seen shelling the ...

After stiff fighting for Myitson, 26th Brigade push through ruins towards Mongmit, Northern Burma.

Troops of the 2nd Battalion ...

Preparations for an attack by British troops on Myitson, North Burma.

Unloading and use of pontoon boats to cross ...

Troops of 26th Indian Division participate in a march past in Rangoon, the recently liberated capital of Burma.

Troops ...

Troops of 26th Indian Division participate in a march past in Rangoon, the recently liberated capital of Burma.

Troops ...

The British 36th Division advances from India into northern Burma and various activities to aid the advance are ...

The 2nd British Division cross the Irrawaddy River in order to carry out the first daylight attack on ...

A 2nd Division mobile concert party sets up in Manipur, India, before staging a show for troops of ...

A jeep railway is operated by men of 36th Division near Sahmaw in northern Burma.

A jeep, fitted with ...

Part 1: Jeeps with trailers cross a Bailey bridge. A sign reads 'Speeders beware! Mark my words / Wait and ...

Signallers of 36th Division seen laying telephone wires from a Brigade HQ to a forward battalion in the ...

Medium guns are fired on positions on the road between Pindale and Mahlaing, north of Meiktila, Burma, in ...

I. 21 December. Opening with shots of African sappers unloading folding boats from a truck, the film shows the men ...

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 ...

As part of IV Corps' drive on Rangoon, capital of Burma, 123rd Brigade of 5th Indian Division occupy ...

Sherman tanks and troops from the 1st Battalion the Burma Regiment proceeding up beach for an attack on ...

7th Indian Division of IV Corps prepare to set up a beachhead across the Irrawaddy River, to coincide ...

At the RAF's 81 Mobile Field Hospital, operating at Seletar in Singapore, both British servicemen and Japanese prisoners ...

Troops from 82nd West African Division arrive at Ru-Ywa, Burma, by boat and are met by Major-General Stockwell ...

82nd West African Division move their headquarters to the banks of the Dalet river, about a mile north ...

RAF airmen, stationed at Kai Tak aerodrome, enjoy a day off work in Hong Kong.

Landscape view of Kai ...

Air Marshal Garrod, acting Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, visits RAF squadrons at forward airstrips at Tabingaung and Onbauk, Burma.

Air ...

Scenes of operations from forward airstrips near Mandalay, Burma, and scenes of bomb damage to buildings and infrastructure ...

Indian Engineers of the Bengal Sappers and Miners are seen at work clearing Japanese aerial bombs used as ...

A low-altitude aerial survey of bomb damage in and around Maymyo (now Pyin U Lwin), Burma.

Low altitude (c.100-ft) ...

Artillery and air strikes are used to assist an attack by 17th Indian Division on Japanese held positions ...

Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, Allied Air Commander-in-Chief of South East Asia Command and Air Commodore the ...

Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Sir Keith Park, Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, visits Hong Kong.

A bare-metal RAF ...