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

Sixteen African chiefs, the heads of tribes represented in 11th East African Division fighting in Burma, are received at Government House in Colombo, ...

... Burmans', the cameraman does not actually name any of them.

Bayly and Harper name some of the dignitaries as including Sir Paw Tun (pre-war Prime Minister), Htoon Aung Gyaw (adviser to Dorman-Smith) and U Ba U (high court judge) in addition to Major- ...

... was still under military administration.

Before the war Aung San had been for the ... uprising in March 1945 and after the war emerged as a key personality in the Burmese ... dignitaries as including Sir Paw Tun (pre-war Prime Minister), Htoon Aung Gyaw ( ...

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

Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits a variety of locations in Rangoon, capital ...

... a group of young children receive a reading lesson from a young Burmese woman who had been studying education in Rangoon before the war. The teacher stands at a blackboard with letters of the Burmese alphabet chalked on it. A small boy is invited to step ...

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

The Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, makes a tour of inspection of Rangoon, the recently liberated capital ...

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

Infantry of 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) seen patrolling in monsoon conditions in the flooded 'Sittang Bend' area near Waw, Burma ...

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

Infantry of 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) seen patrolling in monsoon conditions in the flooded 'Sittang Bend' area near Waw, Burma ...

... to say that this film was shot somewhere on the lower Irrawaddy.

The Irrawaddy Flotilla Company was an important pillar of the pre-war Burmese economy and the value of its transport led to its vessels being deliberately wrecked, in order to deny them ...

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

The visit of Lieutenant-General Sir William Slim to 2nd Division area at Ondaw, Burma.

Lieutenant-General Sir William Slim, commander of 14th Army ...

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

Watercraft are used to deliver mortar rounds to infantry of 4th Battalion, 1st Gurkha Rifles (33rd Brigade, 7th Indian Division) and ammunition to 5.5- ...

... is also useful for its illustration of the appalling monsoon weather, which to a large extent shaped operations during this phase of the war.

Pegu, 50 miles north of the capital Rangoon, was the last major town on the Rangoon - Meiktila road and was ...