... people, ripe for recruitment for the War. There is attempted subtlety in the film& ... conveys something of the intrusion of the War into everyday life.

Richard Osborne ( ... Empire and the Second World War (London: Hambledon Continuum, 2006 ...

Great Britain

On the cultivation and treatment of sisal in Tanganyika with an emphasis on the importance of the crop for war needs.

... British troops during the First World War and the heroism of the boy ... , Kenya’s Contribution to the Allied War Effort shows Africans and ... ).

Lewis, Joanna, Empire State-building: War & Welfare in Kenya, 1925-52 (Ohio ...

... Gateway to India, Bombay Yachting Club, crowded street with street markets, Perth + Freemantel city scenes with the War Memorial.

Approach to Sydney harbour. The harbour. City scenes with Trade Fair carnival through city streets.

Production / ...

... Corps patch. Close-up of a local being treated. A Japanese prisoner of war on a stretcher (identifiable by his soft peaked cap) is lifted ... on 2 May 1945. They are buried in adjacent plots in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Rangoon War Cemetery.

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

An RAF Repair and Salvage Unit recovers a crashed Hawker Hurricane fighter-bomber near Sagaing, Burma.

A jeep and a lorry drive along a road ...

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

RAF Liberators bomb defences in support of amphibious landings against Rangoon, Burma.

Aerial footage of Spitfires in the distance. Distant ...

... out. Two men attend to a patient on a stretcher. A line of prisoners of war (POWs). A man on a stretcher is carried through a doorway ...

A good illustration of the multi-national nature of the war in South East Asia.

Dopesheet remarks that many ...

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

Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, visits Rangoon, Burma.

RAF ensign flying from a flagpole. Air Marshal Coryton (Air ...

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

Reel 1: Airmen Paddy and Jock sitting in a train compartment. They lean out of a window. Paddy leans from a window to buy bananas from a local girl. Scenic shots of the ...

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

Men of an RAF Regiment Light Anti-Aircraft Squadron make an amphibious landing at Rangoon, Burma.

Group Captain Harold Pleasance, Air Liaison ...

... Men gather around a large cabinet radio to hear news of the war in Europe. Close-up of men listening to the radio. Wider shot; the ... bridge at Toungoo, see related items.

By this point of the war IV Corps had been driving hard south along the Rangoon ...