... in action. He and his pilot, Flight Lieutenant J G Buchanan of RAF 110 Squadron, failed to return after a Mosquito sortie over Rangoon on 2 May 1945. They are buried in adjacent plots in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Rangoon War Cemetery.
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... , was a new concept in military medicine during the Second World War. It would develop considerably by the time of the Vietnam War and did much to reduce the proportion of soldiers who died of their wounds.
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... , was a new concept in military medicine during the Second World War. It would develop considerably by the time of the Vietnam War and did much to reduce the proportion of soldiers who died of their wounds.
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... used by the armies and navies of numerous countries both during and post-war. It was still in service with the Royal Navy during the 1982 Falklands War.
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Still photographs by Sergeant Hardy, held by the Imperial War Museum's Photograph Archive, suggest that the first guerilla ... the MPAJA's liaison with the Allies during the war, and (illustrating the turbulent political changes of this ...
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... as the MPAJA's liaison with the Allies during the war, and (illustrating the turbulent political changes of this region ... the Malayan Emergency. Captions for images held by the Imperial War Museum's Photograph Archive (see PHO references below) also name a ...
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Still photographs by Sergeant Hardy, held by the Imperial War Museum's Photograph Archive, suggest that the first guerilla ... the MPAJA's liaison with the Allies during the war, and (illustrating the turbulent political changes of this ...
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Still photographs by Sergeant Hardy, held by the Imperial War Museum's Photograph Archive, suggest that the first guerilla to ... the MPAJA's liaison with the Allies during the war, and (illustrating the turbulent political changes of this ...
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... Division, passes driving his jeep.
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The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) records a Lance Corporal Terence Douglas ... , Birmingham, and is now buried in the CWGCs Taukkyan War Cemetery.
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... in action. He and his pilot, Flight Lieutenant J G Buchanan of RAF 110 Squadron, failed to return after a Mosquito sortie over Rangoon on 2 May 1945. They are buried in adjacent plots in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Rangoon War Cemetery.
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Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the pre-war Governor of Burma, returns to Government House, Rangoon, after years ... from Myitkyina to India later that year, spending the war in Simla. This film therefore represents a pivotal moment, ...
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Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the pre-war Governor of Burma, returns to Government House, Rangoon, after years ... from Myitkyina to India later that year, speding the war in Simla. This film therefore represents a pivotal moment, ...
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