BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Around Christmas 1944, British troops of 36th Division receive a welcome consignment of airmail in northern Burma.
Douglas Dakota transport ...
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... fascination with the Japanese suicide is marked.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records a Private James James, ... Helen Ann James, of Llandaff, Cardiff. He is buried in Taukkyan War Cemetery north of Rangoon.
A section of footage in Reel ...
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... gun being fired.
In the 'Railway Corridor' of northern Burma, troops of 36th Division advance on Pinwe.
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Gives a good impression of the terrain and conditions of the fighting during this phase of the war in northern Burma.
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the GEN NO 10 1944
... . Superficially, Brussels seems "normal," but film of wrecked trains, railway yards and factories suggests "the hangover of war." Communist workers march, their banners demanding "Du Travail pour la Victoire;" the black market flourishes, and people queue ... -
... Concorde monument, Paris (evidence of Hitler's "overconfidence").
IV. Berlin. Germans donate metal ornaments etc for use in war-factories (Film at least 18 months old).
V. "Hudson." Lockheed Hudson retired from service (Film of depth-charge ...
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... Monastery.
VII. "Letter to Bert." 'Cockney' voice describes/film shows leisure activities in North Africa. Tommy Trinder entertains.
VIII. "Pacific Front." Air-sea war (Zeroes) and combined operations in the "Battle of a thousand islands."
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... this fortified air-base; troops advance with flamethrowers. e. Burma: "war by infiltration" behind enemy lines. f. New Britain: carrier- ... Islands: Massive air attack on this key sector of 'pre-war Japanese Empire'; landing at Kwajalein beach; Nimitz visits ...
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... in deep snow.
II. United States prisoners of war are marched through Rome. Over ... of rocky coastline.
VI. Movement of Allied prisoners of war in Italy. Artillery has been much ... Hitler belonged in the First World War, has now been honoured by the ...
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... bringing memories of the days between the wars, memories of parades to the skirl of Gurkha ... had their place in the most mechanised war. There were decorations for long ... I. We've often brought you pictures of the war, well, here's a panorama of peace. Some ...
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... it ‘to be of great propaganda value to the general war effort but … specifically a US one’ ... Birkbeck College, University of London, 2001), accessed at Imperial War Museum.
Fazalbhoy, Y. A., A Plea For Indian Newsreels ...
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... PLOUGHSHARES - THE VICEROY'S TOUR - Music: 'Steadfast & Steady (Waltz)' a blend of the things of peace and the things of war made up the Viceroy's Northern Tour. Meeting the Governor at a Punjab airport. His Excellency went on to inspect a training school ...
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... The original idea of this madras national War Front Scheme was to teach villagers ... Air Commodore - came to inspect the national War Front's Exhibition train before sending ... 's a sort of tabloid version of modern mechanised war. Mines and bombs in ones and ...
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