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At Bangkok jail suspected Japanese war criminals are paraded in front of ex-prisoners of war and ... of Japan, and with the recovery of Allied prisoners of war and internees in full swing, attention was turned to the ...

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

Interned Japanese civilians and troops are put to work in Singapore, now reoccupied by the Allies.

Various views of Japanese civil internees at ...

... an Imperial Japanese Army gendarmerie with responsibilities for military policing, internal security and (often political) justice. During the war they quickly developed a reputation for brutality and were regarded by the Allies in much the same vein as ...

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

A fire blazes at the petrol dump of Kallang Airport, Singapore, and firefighters work to extinguish the flames.

Large petrol fire burning at night ...

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

A Gurkha of the 3rd Battalion 2nd Gurkha Rifles has a leg amputated in a field hospital at Myebon, Burma, after he was captured and left for dead by the ...

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

Shot on 16 September 1945: three Japanese representatives of the Ipoh garrison pass camera. Interior footage; the Japanese officers meet officers of Force 136 (Special Operations ...

... an Imperial Japanese Army gendarmerie with responsibilities for military policing, internal security and (often political) justice. During the war they quickly developed a reputation for brutality and were regarded by the Allies in much the same vein as ...

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

'T for Tommy', a Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF 230 Squadron tasked with delivering rice to Kuantan in Malaya, is seen beached after crashing ...

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

Following the crash of a Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF 230 Squadron, delivering rice to the people of Kuantan, Malaya, a second Sunderland arrives ...

... significant. They had previously been the Burma National Army under Aung San. Aung San had gone from being a pre-war nationalist nuisance, to the head of a Japanese-sponsored paramilitary force (the Burma National Army's forerunners) and then leader of a ...

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

A week before the handover of responsibility for Burma from military to civil administration, a parade is held at Government House, Rangoon, with Lord ...

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

A week before the handover of responsibility for Burma from military to civil administration, a parade is held at Government House, Rangoon, with Lord ...