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I. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' British civilian workers use square-mesh metal track in the construction of a new airfield. Construction workers unroll the square-mesh and peg it into the turf to consolidate aircraft taxiways and runways. The commentary ...

... across the Steppe.

The newsreel series War Pictorial News was compiled by the ... for Bengal’s problems: the war in Burma had cut off supplies ... had […] passed’ (Sen, 1981, 55). War Pictorial News No. 153 was ...

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I. 'INDIA.' Lord Archibald Wavell, Viceroy of India, chats to local dignitaries during his first official tour of Bombay Province. Assamese forestry workers unload logs from the back of a soft-skinned vehicle. A British official (Governor of Assam ?) ...

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I. 'BURMA.' Indian Army personnel working on air supply duties load air-dropping packs with food rations. In a storage area, stacked packages await loading onto transport aircraft, as South East Asia Command (SEAC) pilots gather in the shade of a ...

... Indian sub-continent during the war. Burma was also the territory ... 1944).

The first two sections of War Pictorial News 161 display different ... is different in several ways. Here the War is an abstract concept to be negotiated, and members ...

... important events of the Second World War using stock shots and captured ... stock shots of large numbers of Italian Prisoners of war marching into captivity. British infantry ... United States of America entering the war (cf WPN 68). United States General Douglas ...

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I. WPN Special- 'INVASION.' The commentary outlines the events of Tuesday June 6th 1944, the Allied invasion of Western Europe (Normandy landings). Film footage taken from the interior of a Royal Air Force (RAF) Avro Lancaster bomber shows its ...

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I. 'ON THREE FRONTS- FRANCE.' Allied naval shipping is shown at sea. King George VI wearing a life jacket, stands on the bridge of an unidentified Royal Navy ship (HMS Arethusa ?) on his way to visit the Allied beachheads in Normandy. On arrival at ...

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I. 'INVASION NEWS.' A Royal Air Force (RAF) 4x2 David Brown light tractor tows a bomb train of 60-lb 3-in aircraft rockets past a parked Hawker Typhoon Mk IB fighter aircraft (no Squadron codes visible). The commentary outlines the specifications of ...

... merchant shipping. The commentary outlines the successful anti-shipping operation and stresses the contribution of Coastal Command to the war effort.

V. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit an agricultural camp in Britain to ...

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I. 'BURMA.' An item introducing the activities of the Chindits in Burma and relating to the capture of the strategic Burmese market town of Mogaung by elements of the 77th Indian Infantry Brigade. A Chindit column is shown on the move on a jungle ...

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I. 'ITALY.' The Allied advance on Florence (Tuscany). British Eighth Army M3A1 White scout cars and Daimler scout cars raise dust as they move in convoy along an Italian country road. British Jeeps and Staghound Mk I (Chevrolet M6) armoured cars move ...