... THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

As Britain resumes control of Hong Kong after the surrender of Japan, British, Indian and Canadian prisoners of war are freed, and Japanese troops interned.

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... of this camp as over 1,700 Malay and Javanese labourers, with the sick mostly suffering from dysentry and beri-beri. During the war many thousands of Asian civilians were used as forced labour, known as 'romusha' in Japanese. According to Bayly and Harper ...

... visits an aerodrome near Calcutta where he meets Wing Commander Nicholson, the first man of Fighter Command to receive the VC in the war. Accompanied by Sir John Herbert, Governor of Bengal, the Duke inspects the Air Raid Precautions, troops and armaments ...

... a fatigue party erect the stage. Various shots from the show, entitled Girls in Uniform. Shots of the mixed audience of British, Australian, Rhodesian and Indian troops.

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Summary: ENSA sequence shot primarily for "War Pictorial News".

... with soldier, with his back to camera, with a slung Sten submachine gun. Landscape shot. A photographer, probably War Correspondent Allan MacPherson, smokes a cigarette. Patrol commander speaks on a wireless set. RAF Thunderbolt fighter-bomber overhead. ...

... 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.

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... . The Lieutenant-Governor and the Chief of Police at Castel Benito Gate. Montgomery talking to the mayor. Montgomery gives an interview to war correspondents after receiving the keys of the town. Montgomery gets into his car at Benito Gate and drives down ...

... to say that this film was shot somewhere on the lower Irrawaddy.

The Irrawaddy Flotilla Company was an important pillar of the pre-war Burmese economy and the value of its transport led to its vessels being deliberately wrecked, in order to deny them ...

... Unicraft tug and barge were designed after a 1942 visit to India by Major-General D J McMullen, Director of Transportation at the War Office. It was designed on the 'Meccano' principle and could be transported by road or rail for assembly in-theatre. The ...

... aboard HMS Alacrity.

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For other film of Sarawak in this period, see related items. Sarawak had previously been a British Protectorate, but under post-war constitutional reforms, sovereignty was ceded (with some acrimony) to the Crown.

... to an American is significant; Dorman-Smith was a colonial governor and the United States was utterly disinterested in supporting the war in Burma simply to restore British imperial prestige. By the time this film was shot, the US operational objective of ...

... 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 ...