"SECRET STAFF FILM REPORTS: WAR DEPT. 26.", with other material.
"SECRET STAFF FILM REPORTS: WAR DEPT. 26.", with other material.
British soldiers of 77th Brigade, 3rd Indian Division in bush hats board a raft as others on board wait. Two small boats lashed together and full of men use an outboard motor to ...
I. Reel One. Evacuation of British and Commonwealth prisoners of war from Hainan. Onboard a British cruiser, Captain RN talks with a small group of US officers - a Japanese officer is in attendance, looking ...
25 Oct. 1943. The hospital ship Leinster arrives at Malta and ties up alongside the dockyard wharf. The patients are offloaded and put into ambulances. The hospital ship Dinard steams into the Grand ...
Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Singapore, are evacuated by ... had 12 years service overseas.
Air evacuation of prisoners of war and internees accounted for only some 3,000 ...
Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Changi Jail, Singapore, are ... South East Asia Command had evacuated 53,700 prisoners of war and internees, rising to 71,000 by the end of October ...
Crowd of freed prisoners of war at Changi jail with waiting car ... an open day for freed prisoners of war and internees. See also JFU ...
With the British reoccupation of Singapore, prisoners of war evacuated by ambulances from camps to waiting hospital ships, and Japanese troops are made to clean up the city ...
After being cut off by Japanese forces from the rest of the British force northeast of Letmauk, Burma, for two weeks the 2nd Brigade 82nd West African ...
Demonstrating the use of an RAF de Havilland Tiger Moth biplane to evacuate casualties from improvised landing areas to hospital on the Imphal front, ...
Notes
Dopesheet for this film is undated, but likely date is mid-late September 1945. During the war the Japanese had proclaimed a Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere and anti-colonial rhetoric and propaganda had been a key ...