AMBUSH 1965
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'Action' drama set in the period of the confrontation with Indonesia.
Establishing scenes show enemy soldiers carrying out an interrogation in a native village - they torture and kill a villager and raze some of the ...
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AMENU'S CHILD 1950
'"How better ways of feeding children came to an African village".
A Story told in the traditional idiom of an African folk tale. Why so many babies die - and what to do about it if you want the babies to live. Foriwa has a baby. Like many women ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
At an investiture at Government House, Singapore, Major-General Thomas Terry US Army presents medals to Lieutenant-General Messervy and other British ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
At Katha, on the River Irrawaddy in northern Burma, American signalmen lay a telephone line across the river.
Views of the linesmen at work on a ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Aerial shots of the damage done to Myitkyina, Burma, by American forces in the area who were shelling the Japanese garrison; buildings are badly damaged and some are still burning ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
At a jetty men carry belts of ammunition. The belts are passed below decks. The harbour as the boat leaves. 0.5-inch twin Vickers turret traverses left to right and then is ...
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Great Britain
The work of the United Missions in the Copperbelt at Mindolo and Nkana, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia).
Title and credits. The undeveloped country except for a few chimneys and mine workshops. Young African women join husbands and are ...
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ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Scenes of Supermarine Sea Otter amphibious biplanes in flight and the burning wreckage of a Sea Otter shot down over Akyab Island (Sittwe), Burma ...
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ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
A Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF 230 Squadron and DUKW amphibians are used to evacuate casualties of 111th Brigade during Operation River, May- ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Troops of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen aboard HMS Prins Albert before making an amphibious landing on the banks of the Rangoon river, ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Troops of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen making an amphibious landing on the banks of the Rangoon river, Burma, as part of Operation ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Troops of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen making an amphibious landing on the banks of the Rangoon river, Burma, as part of Operation ...
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