... 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.

... . 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, ...

... 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.

... of tanks using the diversion.

Notes

Interesting shots of the temple, with the obvious destruction being suggestive of the war damage done to Burma more generally.

No film in the FUB series for FUB 82, but dopesheet description suggests ...

... of swords was considered a vital part of the demilitarisation of Japan. Hoping to avoid a parallel to the end of the First World War, where the German Army marched home with its arms and plausibly 'undefeated', it was hoped that the formal surrender of ...

... to Red Road airstrip. Trams, motor vehicles and pedestrians on the street below. Second approach from slightly different angle. Two war memorials; one similar in size and shape to the Cenotaph on Whitehall, the second a statue of a steel-helmeted soldier ...

... , on Akyab Island in the Arakan coastal region of Burma, local people and allied servicemen work to rebuild years of war damage.

Notes

A film of obvious propaganda value but still a useful record of reconstruction in the Arakan. The variety of ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

13 April 1942. British prisoners of war returned from Italy recording a broadcast to their families at the 15th Scottish Hospital, Egypt. Captain Peter Haddon is in charge. The dialogue is radioed direct ...

... . Traditionally headhunters, in 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 ...

... shot by the British Army we see them doing sophisticated work as vehicle mechanics. Some aspects of the Naga experience of the war was fairly well documented and can be found at the references below. See related items.

With Burma's general scarcity ...

... ' given its countless small actions and extremely difficult terrain. The panning shot of the mortar battery is particularly good.

The Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive holds one other film which is likely to show action at Church Knoll. See ...

... this area.

Colonel Dupuy was the commander of an American artillery battalion and apparently had the distinction of being the US soldier with longest service in Burma. After the war he went on to become an extremely prolific military historian.