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

Airstrikes by RAF Hurribombers (Hurricane fighter-bombers) on Fort Dufferin and troops of 6th Gurkha Rifles marching towards Mandalay, Burma.

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... . Burma had faced the longest single military campaign of World War II. The military administration that took temporary control of the ... -Smith was in favour of documenting Burmese life. During the war he had visited London and pleaded the Burmese cause. ...

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

Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, recently returned Governor of Burma, attends a ceremonial feeding of the poor as part of the Buddhist Festival of Lights in ...

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

With the Allied reoccupation Japanese troops are used to remove stores of Japanese 'banana' money from banks in Singapore.

A sign on a building ...

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

Film documenting the training of the Kuantan Police force, 'after three and a half years of enforced idleness under the Japanese' by two British ...

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

In Kuantan, Malaya, the Chinese community celebrates the Double Tenth festival for the first time since the Japanese occupation.

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

Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the recently returned Governor of Burma, receives a civic welcome in Rangoon.

Series of severely underlit interior wide ...

... suicidal ferocity in battle.

After the war, both Vice Admiral Teizo and ... assault on Indian territory during World War II (on 24 February 1942) and represented the ... .

During the latter stages of the War food, clothing and medical supplies ...

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

Hindu troops of 1st Battalion 19th Hyderabad Regiment, stationed in Saigon (French Indo-China, now Vietnam) celebrate the festival of Dasera.

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

Two former prisoners of war, one British and one Indian, receive medical treatment at a hospital in Bangkok, Siam (Thailand).

Naik Qasin Khan seen ...

... to an increasingly aggressive popular nationalism, a large number of interned Europeans and Eurasians expecting to resume their pre-war status, and tens of thousands of Japanese who had surrendered but were still armed. For other examples of slogans and ...

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

British tanks and troops move forward to capture a Japanese position just north of Mandalay, Burma.

19th Indian Division take a Japanese ...