... river. Infantry of 1st Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles advancing in open order across paddy fields. A group of 30 Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) apparently captured east of the River Sittang by Burmese Patriotic Forces (formerly Burma National Army). Shot ...
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... the dopesheet and from contemporary photograph captions. See related items. He is mentioned in Louis Allen's 'Burma: The Longest War 1941 - 1945', see references.
Japan surrendered unconditionally on 15 August 1945, some two weeks before this film ...
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... ordering local Japanese commanders to obey the instructions of Allied occupation forces. This facilitated the Recovery of Allied Prisoners of War and Internees, a process known as RAPWI. It also required the Japanese to keep order in the territories they ...
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... ordering local Japanese commanders to obey the instructions of Allied occupation forces. This facilitated the Recovery of Allied Prisoners of War and Internees, a process known as RAPWI. It also required the Japanese to keep order in the territories they ...
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... soldier in the foreground. Civilians looking on. Japanese troops at work. Japanese troops working with British ex-prisoners of war watching; a Union flag flies at the flagstaff of the Municipal Building in the background.
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Given that the ...
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... mule's blinder.
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A good film, well shot, depicting a wide range of military activity at a turning point of the war in this theatre.
On 8 July 1944 the Japanese Army finally abandoned its attempts to capture Imphal. There followed a ...
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... an Imperial Japanese Army gendarmerie with responsibilities for military policing, internal security and (often political) justice. During the war they quickly developed a reputation for brutality and were regarded by the Allies in much the same vein as ...
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... boys school in Kuala Lumpur and was opened in 1893. It currently has a student body of around 1200 and during the war was the site firstly of a Japanese administrative centre, later the surrender seen in this film, and finally (with the building being ...
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... 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.
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... been reasonably well integrated in the British colonial state, partly due to their Christian faith, and during the war would distinguish themselves for their effectiveness as guerillas and for their assistance of stranded soldiers and airmen.
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... SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
For the first time since the end of the war, a parade is mounted in Singapore to mark the King's birthday, and Sir Franklin Gimson, Governor of Singapore, takes the salute.
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... SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
For the first time since the end of the war, a parade is mounted in Singapore to mark the King's birthday, and Sir Franklin Gimson, Governor of Singapore, takes the salute.
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