POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - SOUTH EAST ASIAGB

Steampast in line ahead by ships of the Royal Navy, Commonwealth Strategic Reserve, and Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

Reel One. Aerial LSs of the steampast. Spectators stand on the ...

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

After victory over the Japanese in the battle for Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma Lieutenant-General W J Slim takes part in a flag raising ceremony in ...

POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

Royal Marines at Gibraltar, February 1954.

Part 2 contains scenes of Lieutenant-General Sir Gordon H A McMillen (the Governor General of Gibraltar) and aides-de-campe crossing by jackstay from ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Rehearsed and actual ceremony of the presentation of the George Cross by Lord Gort at a parade in the presence of local and military VIPs in Palace Square.

The Guard of ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Reel 1: Film showing flying boat operations and airmen's recreational activities at RAF Koggala in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). RAF Consolidated Catalina aircraft taking off and coming ...

POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

Part 1. Sir John and Lady Edelsten arrive at Customs House. Inspection of combined Army and RAF guard of honour. Arrival at Customs House of His Excellency the Governor and Lady Creasy; the C-in-C and Lady Edelsten make their ...

POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

Chartered aircraft crash in Malta, February 1956: general view of wreckage showing personnel clearing debris.

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Tour round India by Chiang Kai-shek and his wife.

The film opens by giving a brief background to the war in China, and then follows the couple on their tour showing parades, press calls and so on.

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

Indian Engineers at work building a pontoon bridge. Pushing out ...

POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

A party for British children onboard HMS Forth, submarine depot ship at Malta.

LA.LS from quayside to HMS Forth alongside - a huge Father Christmas figure has been erected as if in the act of ...

... look at "the storm centre of the war in the Far East".

Reel 1 explains ... face of difficulties (eg geographical) and opposition (reactionary war lords and pressure for swifter ... . Reel 2 traces the course of the war: Japanese reach objectives, but fail ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Reel 1: Aerial footage; landscapes and cloudscapes. Mountains, possibly the Himalayas. A settlement on a plain. A Chinese city street, possibly in Chungking. A group of four ...