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

Troops and armour are carried across the Irrawaddy River, Burma, at Myinze by a mixture of DUKWs and pontoon rafts.

British troops disembark from ...

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

Brigadier Taunton, commander of 80th Indian Brigade (20th Indian Division) arrives at a Japanese airfield in Saigon as recovered Allied prisoners of war ...

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

Brigadier R G Collingwood, commander of 33rd Brigade (7th Indian Division) holds a conference of officers on the eve of the crossing of the Irrawaddy ...

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Scenes filmed on 16mm Kodachrome in Hong Kong harbour after the Japanese surrender on 12 September 1945.

START 00:21:09 Shots from the cameraman's vessel as it passes the port side of HMS Colossus, a 13,000-ton Royal ...

INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

With the reoccupation of Malaya British and Indian signallers of the Royal Corps of Signals and Indian Army Signal Corps work to restore communcations by both fixed telephone ...

INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

On Ramree Island off the Arakan coast of Burma, local civilians welcome British troops, who go sightseeing with a local headman before a Union flag is ...

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARUnited States of America

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ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, presents British awards to personnel of the United States Army Air Force at the ...

BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

I. Visit to Hong Kong by the Secretary of State for War, the Right Honourable J J Lawson, October 1945. MCU as General Festing introduces Lawson to his staff. CUs of the VIPs. Admiral Harcourt gets into a staff ...

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I. "The road to Mandalay." Report that the Fourteenth Army is beating back the Japanese is accompanied by film illustrating the difficult conditions under which this campaign is being fought: soldiers ford a shallow stream and continue on through a ...

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I. "Lady Louis inspects Indian hospitals." Lady Mountbatten visits a ward speaking to injured soldiers who are bedridden. Others practice "what is called occupational therapy" (sewing), a new idea. The purpose of Lady Mountbatten's visit is said to ...

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I. "Collapse of the Bridge." Engineers repair the Remagen Bridge over the Rhine shortly before its collapse. Film taken immediately after the collapse shows rescue operations under way, including a stretcher casualty being lifted from the buckled ...