In the Arakan coastal region of Burma, Indian Engineers of 25th Indian Division do maintenance work on outboard motors.

A British engineer officer ...

Major-General Francis Festing, commander of 36th Division, seen attending a briefing.

High shot looking down as two officers, one of them (wearing ...

Lord Mountbatten inspects tanks left behind by the retreating Japanese forces and then climbs the steps and walks through the remains of King Thibaw's Palace which has been badly ...

Soldiers of 1st Battalion 15th Punjab Regiment march along a rough road past traditional huts in the suburbs of Mandalay, Burma.

Local people walk ...

As the British Army make their way into Mandalay, Burma, they are re-supplied by air drops from Douglas Dakotas and a Royal Artillery Observation Post ...

Soldiers of 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment move through ruined streets in Mandalay, Burma, whilst mortar batteries concentrate fire on Japanese ...

British troops of 19th Indian Division begin to fight their way into the northern part of the city of Mandalay, Burma.

Troops from the 8th ...

The final assault on Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma, from the air takes place and British troops of 19th Indian Division enter the complex after the ...

After the capture of Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma, British troops enter the fort complex to witness a flag raising ceremony carried out by Lieutenant- ...

Troops of 19th Indian Division have cleared the Japanese from positions at the top of Monastery Hill, Burma, but the Japanese have tunnelled under the ...

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

A ...

Troops of 19th Indian Division enter Mandalay, Burma, but the Japanese defending Fort Dufferin still hold out despite mortar fire and air strikes from ...

Mortars are fired to cover the activities of 1st Battalion 6th Gurkha Rifles who are clearing the south west corner of Fort Dufferin in Mandalay. More mortar ammunition is prepared ...

A Royal Artillery unit use an Ordnance BL 6-inch howitzer to blast holes in the walls of Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma, at point blank range.

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The north corner of Fort Dufferin in Mandalay, Burma, which is being used as a supply depot by the Japanese, is shelled by British Ordnance BL 5.5-inch guns.

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British troops from 19th Indian Division advance into the north of Mandalay, Burma, and aid the attack on Mandalay Hill.

Buddhist pagodas in the ...

British troops watch as Monastery Hill, a known Japanese Observation Post overlooking Mandalay, Burma, and Fort Dufferin are shelled in order to drive ...

Views from Mandalay Hill, Burma, of Ordnance QF 25-pounder field guns and BL 5.5-inch medium guns shelling Japanese sniper positions in a Buddhist ...

Mandalay, Burma's second city, has been left deserted but for a few hardy local people and some military personnel as the war moves to the south; the ...

Scenes of the devastation in Mandalay, Burma, are revealed as the Supreme Allied Commander Lord Louis Mountbatten visits Mandalay Hill and Fort Dufferin ...

Mandalay Hill (Mandalay, Burma), now clear of Japanese soldiers, is held by the British Army but fighting is still going on on the plain below their ...

Horses are led passed crowd at racecourse. Lord and Lady Dorman-Smith present silver bowl to Indian racehorse owner ? and British officer. Brief shot of the Dorman-Smiths taking their seats, along with several British ...

Survey of the Zionist side of the problem of the occupation of Palestine.

After a service of thanksgiving in Rangoon to mark the end of the war in Europe the troops of 26th Indian Division stage a march past.

Officers ...

Field Security Section attached to the 100th Brigade attend to the medical needs of local Burmese from the area of Lingadipa, Burma.

Sergeant A F ...

In the jungle around the town of Tamandu, Burma, a field hospital has been set up to look after casualties from 82nd West African Division wounded in ...

5.5-inch Medium Guns of 1st Medium Regiment go into action at Nyaungbintha in Burma, during operations on the Shwebo Plain.

Lorry-towed 5.5-inch ...

Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the recently returned Governor of Burma, entertains a range of Burmese dignitaries aboard the Royal Navy's County Class ...

Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the recently returned Governor of Burma, entertains a range of Burmese dignitaries aboard the Royal Navy's County Class ...

Major-General Eric Mansergh, commander of 5th Indian Division, seen conferring with Major-General David 'Punch' Cowan, commander of 17th Indian Division ...

Men and women of the Entertainments National Service Association, or ENSA, entertain RAF personnel on a forward airstrip at Tabingaung, Burma.

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Units of the National Revolutionary Army (Chinese Nationalist army) march through Hong Kong.

A crowd of Chinese civilians is supervised by ...

START 10:24:30 Scenes showing artillery training in bush country: an Observation Post (OP) from which three European officers survey the countryside, two Ordnance QF 25-pound field howitzer positions set up in the bush, two African signallers and a ...

One mile from Ondaw, Burma, British sappers of the Royal Engineers clear mines and bulldoze a diversion near a demolished bridge.

Close-up of the ...

British infantry of 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment board Royal Indian Navy LCMs (Landing Craft Mechanised) make an amphibious landing ten miles ...

Aerial views of a river and surrounding jungle in Burma. View of the river from a hillside. A Burmese man (possibly near Myitkyina, Kachin?) walks towards the camera through a wooded area. Views of the ...

Somewhere in central Burma, troops of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) work to modify Universal carriers for river crossing ...

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

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

Mortar crews of 56th Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery, 5th Indian Division, engage Japanese snipers near Toungoo, Burma.

An Ordance ML 3-inch ...

Operations by RAF De Havilland Mosquito aircraft at Joari airfield, east of Cox's Bazaar, India, and paratroopers descending on Rangoon, Burma ...

I. CU of Mountbatten on the terrace outside the Municipal Buildings, Singapore, reading the Order of the Day - in the background is Allied Air C-in-C SE Asia, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park. LS of the saluting base ...

Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command chairs a meeting with other senior British and American officers.

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The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits Burma's second city, Mandalay, and meets Lieutenant-General Stopford, whose troops captured the city ...

Close-up of Lord Mountbatten taking the salute at the Victory Parade, Rangoon, 15 June 1945.

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Amateur film. Indian cavalry; parade ground at Trivandrum; Cape Comorin - Europeans on boat trip, scenes of waterways.

Native life in Tanganyika and Kenya.