... material (along with the rest of JFU 615-618) was shot for Lord Killearn.

This conference formed part of Allied attempts to remedy a severe shortage of food throughout south east Asia, which had been caused by the economic dislocation of the war.

... 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 ...

... related items.

The dopesheet names the pilot as Flight Lieutenant Jack Rand. Captions of photographs held at the Australian War Memorial name his copilot as Flight Sergeant F Wright. They piloted Sunderland DP180. See references below.

These ...

... began in 1939 when the Thai government used it to house political prisoners who had attempted coups. With the onset of the war the prison infrastructure declined and apparently both guards and prisoners became pirates in order to survive. As one of the ...

... Royal Indian Army Service Corps mule train crosses the bridge.

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No dopesheet for this film, but the Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive holds a number of contemporaneous photographs, the captions of which provided many of the details ...

... the Indian Army. The cameraman's dopesheet describes briefly their service on the North West Frontier, on the Indo-Burma border and then in Burma proper. With the end of the war the battalion saw action in Java around Buitenzorg and Bandoeng (Bandung).

... to an increasingly aggressive popular nationalism, a large number of interned Europeans and Eurasians expecting to resume their pre-war status, and tens of thousands of Japanese who had surrendered but were still armed. For other examples of slogans and ...

... Morning Post]: 'Men who bombed HK now here', 'STRONG CHOLERA WARNING' and 'Tojo Accuses Soviet'. Men clearing rubbish with forks. Men clearing rubble.

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For examples of other film showing early post-war Hong Kong, see related items.

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Dopesheet adds 'It has been remarked that [this film] ...demonstrate[s] the friendly relationship between us and the Ceylonese and their keen interest in helping [the] war effort'.

Date from slates. Dopesheet dated 6/12/1944.

... . From the middle of the nineteenth century increasing numbers were converted to Christianity by the work of missionaries. During the war they proved helpful to the Allies, providing scouts and guides, and aiding Allied stragglers or crashed airmen. Film ...

... and tanks operating over the same area - [a]s our power grows in the Far East combined operations of this nature will do much towards bringing the Jap war machine to a standstill'.

For other film of RAF close support exercises, see related items.

... be found at the reference below.

This footage is used, apparently in its entirety, in an edition of the Ministry of Information's 'War Pictorial News' newsreel dated 27/8/1945. See related items.

No slates and no date on dopesheets. Date is ...