... Ceylon had an important part to play in the War. Providing a vantage point to both coasts ... in which it depicts the impact of the War on Ceylonese life. There is surprisingly little ... that captures the overt intrusion of War. Checkpoints are depicted and there ...

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

RAF airmen, stationed at Kai Tak aerodrome, enjoy a day off work in Hong Kong.

Landscape view of Kai Tak aerodrome panning to an old people's ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

General views of Gondar, Ethiopia, including the fort with prisoners and Ras Seyoum's castle. Lieutenant-General Wetherall, Acting GOC East Africa with Major General Foulkes, GOC 12th African Division, ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

British and Indian troops in action around Cheren (Keren), Eritrea.

Troops load up trucks with supplies for the front line on a portion of railway captured from the ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

Shots from Indian Film Unit. Capture of Massawa, Eritrea. Indian troops, Italian prisoners. Garwali Regiment. Free French Commander. General Heath watches operations. Sunken vessel in harbour.

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

RAF photo-reconnaissance Mosquito aircraft make an accidental flight over Mount Everest and Makalu in the Himalayan mountain range.

Aircrew ...

... 1943. Numori crouches by marker post at the site of the massacre reading the names of the dead; Kogi and an assortment of War Correspondents stand behind; they are named on the dopesheet as Captain Henry (Army Public Relations Officer), Messrs Hutcheson ...

... lsquo;warriors and vanquished, slaves and slavers, men who might have lived on in their primitive pattern of alternating peace and war but for the curiosity and tenacity of an exploring European – Livingstone’. The European influence is ‘ ...

... decisive switch to densely populated street scenes. The narrative informs us of the massive increase in numbers occasioned by the civil war in China. The resultant ‘crazy ramshackle villages’ in the harbours and on the hillsides are shown. The ...

... in action. He and his pilot, Flight Lieutenant J G Buchanan of RAF 110 Squadron, failed to return after a Mosquito sortie over Rangoon on 2 May 1945. They are buried in adjacent plots in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Rangoon War Cemetery.

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

British troops, probably of 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers, take up positions at Kabo Weir on the Mu River in Burma and mount a patrol.

Men ...

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

RAF and US Army Air Force (USAAF) operations at and around Meiktila following its capture by British forces.

Bomb damage to buildings and ...