Shot on 7 October 1945: footage from a landing craft approaching the shore showing two Landing Craft Assaults (LCAs) and larger transport vessels on the horizon. An LCA ahead, with ...
A survey of the damage done to the Ava Bridge over the Irrawaddy River, Burma, is carried out by Royal Engineers and Indian Engineers.
One of the ...
The first batch of freed civilian internees leave Stanley Camp, Hong Kong, and are evacuated by the Royal Australian Navy Bathurst Class corvette HMAS ...
With the Japanese surrender and Allied occupation of south east Asia, large numbers of forced labourers are returned to Malaya from Siam (Thailand) and ...
Documentary on the war in Burma.
An interim report on the progress of the Fourteenth Army offensive in Burma.
Description of the logistic problems of the Burmese campaign, caused by mountainous jungle, the Chindwin river and heavy monsoon rainfall. ...
After the murder of five RAF aircrew and twenty Indian soldiers by Indonesian extremists, the village of Bekassi (Bekasi), near Batavia, Dutch East ...
Recovery of Allied prisoners from Camp No 2, Tokyo area, and their transfer to the hospital ship USS Benevolence, Shinagawa Wan, for screening and treatment. Most of the prisoners ...
A British man, two Burmese women and children standing outside building. A British man holding a small child. Shots of the women and children, a dog walks out of the building. A group of Indian and Anglo- ...
Scenes of the aftermath of a raid by Japanese aircraft against the motor transport of 123rd Brigade and the Tactical HQ of 5th Indian Division on the ...
Scenes of the aftermath of a raid by Japanese aircraft against the motor transport of 123rd Brigade and the Tactical HQ of 5th Indian Division.
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Reel 1: Telephoto shot of a crucifix atop a church tower. General shot of the church. View of a Buddhist temple. Closer shot of Burmese script above the entrance to the temple; ...
Mute unedited footage showing the return of HMS Nelson from the Far East.
MS and MCU shots of HMS Nelson entering port. Nelson alongside the Southern Railway Jetty, Portsmouth - ratings wave from the ship's side. ...
Comedy cycling act in which the rider uses several machines.
After a sharp rain shower washes away a temporary diversion on the Sittang River south of Toungoo, Burma, engineers of IV Indian Corps build a ...
Views of the River Chindwin, Burma, as seen from a DUKW ('duck') amphibious truck.
Landscape view of the River Chindwin with a mountain ridge ...
Men of the 178th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, manhandling Ordnance QF 25-pounder field guns over muddy ground in Yambo, Burma.
Notes
Troops seen here are part of ...
Bad road conditions caused by monsoon rains around Yambo, Burma.
Muddy conditions for 72nd Brigade 36th Division make driving difficult. Lorries ...
Reel 1: A goods train drives towards camera with its drivers or stokers leaning out from the footplate. A sign board headed 'Manipur Road - Dimapur' gives distances to London, New ...
Armoured vehicles and motor transport of 63 Brigade, 17th Indian Division, seen on the road to Rangoon, Burma.
A low-loader carrying a bulldozer ...
Reel 1: Men playing cricket; they are all wearing cricket whites. An Indian marching band performing. Various close-ups on different musicians playing trumpets, saxophones, ...
Alligator amphibians of a Royal Indian Army Service Corps General Purpose Transport (GPT) company navigate through narrow waterways near Kangaw, in ...
As fierce fighting continues at Kangaw, ...
A Royal Indian Navy motor launch, patrolling coastal rivers on Ramree Island off Burma, searches for Japanese stragglers with the aid of a captured ...
Marine Wilson plays the bagpipes to a laughing audience of Chinese children sitting on the bonnet of a jeep. Sweets are handed round; one marine has a kid riding piggyback. A ...
I. British naval ratings on leave in Yokohama. CUs as men examine Japanese currency - 10 yen notes. Boat takes the men ashore, passing a small light-house situated on the end of a mole - US crewmen have ...
I. Sequence showing Kowloon power station, and lines of coolie women carrying logs to the operative boiler. HA.LS onto a second power station in a built up area - Taikoo (?)
II. Miscellaneous scenes in ...
I. Japanese troops board a small steamer alongside jetty. More troops march up in column, ground arms and close up ranks.
II. Submarine HMS Spearhead alongside in dockyard. Crewmen act up for the camera - ...
I. Reel One. Camera craft approaches Azuma in company with other LCVPs - the helmsman and gunners are American. LCVPs PD-703 and 704 run ashore, and RN landing party disembarks. Japanese soldiers emerge ...
Scenes at home in Seychelles: swimming. Ocean voyage. Suez canal. Rough seas.
Civilians in Sadaung, southeast of Meiktila, Burma, welcome RAF officers who helped reclaim their village from the Japanese.
A jeep drives up ...
START 00:10:37 Views of a community of Chinese people living on board sampans in a harbour on Hong Kong island.
00:13:09 A victory parade through Hong Kong's Central District with people marching with colourful banners, Allied flags (no British ...
Indian Engineers of 17th Indian Division clear Japanese mines from the village of Kandaung prior to IV Corps' drive on Rangoon, capital of Burma.
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Scenes after the reoccupation of Rangoon including a Muslim parade, troops marching, captured Japanese weaponry and views of Rangoon docks.
A ...
A variety of scenes from Singapore, including a Chinese victory parade, looting at the docks and a performance by a Royal Marine band for inmates at ...
Part 1, shot by Sergeant Abbott: Pan around Kranji POW camp showing huts amongst trees, men walking about and others doing laundry. Various shots of men queueing for food at the ...
I. Reel One. Japanese war criminals are rounded up under heavy and ostentatious guard, frisked, and then driven off to gaol - one of the men under arrest is Colonel Esao Tokunaga, whose trouser band has been ...
START 00:00:00 Scenes in the central district of Hong Kong showing its Chinese inhabitants going about their daily business, with close-ups of a duck and her three ducklings, brightly-coloured wreaths on sale at a flower shop, children and street ...
START 10:18:40 Scenes shot in the commercial district of Nairobi (a continuation of Nairobi street scenes in AYY 1163) where most properties are no higher than two storeys and the pavements are covered with awnings to shelter shoppers from the sun: ...
Reel 1: Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia speaking with a senior officer wearing the 'Ace of Spades' patch of 25th ...
Reel 1: Men laden with kit board the Otranto at Bombay harbour. Female personnel of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force ('the WAAFs') go aboard up a gangplank; Indian bearers carry ...
36th Indian Infantry Brigade land at Rangoon, capital of Burma, to complete the occupation of the city by 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, as part ...
Footage of SEAC (South East Asia Command) in Burma, taken by US cameraman.
I. A 4.5-inch gun is towed by a jeep. Two US commanding officers and their staffs confer over maps. British troops and Gurkhas on patrol. Field ...
Shot on 29 September 1945: An Avro York transport aircraft taxiing; it has the 'phoenix' badge of the Supreme Allied Commander on its nose. Lawson steps down from the aircraft ...
Jack Lawson, Secretary of State for War in Clement Attlee's newly-elected Labour government, addresses an audience of troops on the subject of ...
Jack Lawson, Secretary of State for War in Clement Attlee's newly-elected Labour government, arrives by air at Mingaladon airfield near Rangoon, Burma ...
Jack Lawson, Secretary of State for War in Clement Attlee's newly-elected Labour government, visits troops of 7th Parachute Battalion in Singapore ...
Lawson and Harcourt at Stanley internment camp where they meet Reverend Sandbach, the superintendent of the camp. They walk through the camp. They leave the camp's hospital ...
