... Lord Killearn.

Notes

By the time this film was shot the war had been over for eight months. However, the destruction and economic dislocation caused by the war had led to a widespread food shortage. A Special Commissioner, Lord ...

... liberation of Rangoon, capital of Burma, and the end of the war in Europe, a celebratory victory race meeting is held at ... fell to an unopposed amphibious invasion on 3 May 1945. The war in Europe ended on 8 May following a catastrophic battle in Berlin.

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... , Sergeant E Miyagi, who is escorting three Japanese prisoners of war. Wavell then talks to the Maharaja of Manipur, Bodh ... were converted to Christianity by the work of missionaries. During the war they proved helpful to the Allies, providing scouts and ...

... to read: ‘Maj Gen O C Wingate, DSO / Capt. G H Borrow, MC / Mr Stewart Emeny (War Correspondent) / Mr Stanley Wills (War Correspondent) / 1st Lieut. Brian E F Hodges, USAAF / 2nd Lieut. Stephan A Wanderer, USAAF, Tech Sgt Frank ...

... Hong Kong shot by Sergeant Tulloch under the title 'Hong Kong Today', see related items.

Taken together, the material shot as 'Hong Kong Today' provides an interesting but perhaps somewhat one-sided view of life in early post-war Hong Kong.

... sits in a jeep with an Indian driver; in the back of the jeep are two blindfolded Japanese prisoners of war.

Notes

The dopesheet refers to an armoured column of tanks, artillery and Punjabi troops which was tasked with driving to Mandalay. ...

... station which served as the summer capital of Burma due to its cooler and less humid climate than Rangoon. During the war it was the site of a Japanese internment camp in which large numbers of British, Anglo-Indian and Anglo-Burmese civilians were held. ...

... 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 ...

... since been renamed PAF Masroor. This station served as a base for operational flying during the 1965 and 1971 wars with India.

Still photographs of operations at RAF Mauripur can be seen in the IWM still photographs referenced below.

Location ...

... collided with another Liberator of the same squadron and both disintegrated. All aboard both aircraft were killed. McKee, and the nineteen other aircrew of the two bombers, are buried in the CWGC Maynamati War Cemetery, near Comilla in Bangladesh.

... Brian Ridgway, receives the American Distinguished Flying Cross.

Notes

Cameraman's dopesheet provides no details, the details above taken from corresponding stills held in the Imperial War Museum's Photograph Archive. See related items.

... Craft Support Medium) 36 is loaded with ammunition and taken to sea.

Notes

During the latter stages of the war in Burma XV Corps (Christison) made many amphibious landings on positions along the Arakan coastline. The Landing Craft, Support, ...