BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

HMS Eskimo, a Royal Navy Tribal Class destroyer, bombards Japanese shore positions while troops make an amphibious landing in the Letpan area of the ...

INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

Footage of the bombardment of Fort Dufferin in Mandalay, Burma, as seen from Mandalay Hil.

View of Fort Dufferin with raised dust. Long lens ...

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

Reel 1: Long shots of terrain at Gangaw shows smoke spreading and ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Indian troops with enemy equipment captured after the battle for Wadi Akarit. The local population of the Gabs Gap returning to their homes. The town of Sfax.

Troops of ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

17th Indian Division IV Corps on the road between Nyaungu and Meiktila, Burma.

Sherman tanks of Probyn's Horse (5th King Edward VII's Own Lancers, ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

At Klang, in Selangor, Malaya, the Governor of Malaya Sir Edward Gent opens a new railway bridge, built by interned Japanese troops and the Royal ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Troops and armour are carried across the Irrawaddy River, Burma, at Myinze by a mixture of DUKWs and pontoon rafts.

British troops disembark from ...

... opening of the 1,150ft Bailey bridge at Kalewa. The construction of this bridge, with sections assembled upstream and floated into position, was one of the outstanding feats of military engineering during the Second World War.

See also FUB 18.

... construction of this bridge, with sections assembled upstream and floated into position, was one of the most outstanding feats of military engineering during the Second World War.

Original documentation for this item is included with that FUB 17.

... at a Japanese airfield in Saigon as recovered Allied prisoners of war are flown out.

Brigadier Taunton inspects a Japanese ... intern Japanese personnel stationed there, recover Allied prisoners of war and internees (as seen in this film) and maintain ...

... 1945 and was according to the official history 'the longest opposed river crossing in any theatre of the Second World War'. Following a covert reconnaissance by a Sea Reconnaissance Unit and a Special Boat Section, a company of 2nd Battalion, South ...

... of his trousers. A guerrilla is issued cigarettes and food.

Notes

The Chinese nationalist flag is significant, as during the war there were various Chinese guerrilla groups affiliated to either the Nationalists, or the Chinese Communist Party, ...