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

Views of DUKW amphibious trucks on the River Chindwin in Burma.

DUKWs on river and manouevring. In one shot a light aircraft can be seen.

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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Netherlands East Indies Air Force at Singapore, flying and landing. They are welcomed by Air Vice-Marshal Pulford and inspected by Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham. The aircraft are Lockheed ...

GB

A portrait of the Fleet Air Arm.

An introductory sequence depicts life at a British shore station of the FAA: opening shots of dinghies sailing near an aircraft carrier and other naval vessels, followed by scenes of ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Scenes from the Army Exhibition in Nairobi in September 1944. The film depicts African and European schoolboys inspecting the exhibits, before showing African soldiers – ...

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

Sixteen African chiefs, the heads of tribes represented in 11th East African Division fighting in Burma, are received at Government House in Colombo, ...

Great Britain

Shot in Uganda, this film deals with the activities of Makerere College, which provides higher education for Africans from all over East Africa, as shown through the experiences of a typical female student.

The film opens with shots ...

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

After the capture of Gangaw, East African troops advance towards the River Irrawaddy, Burma, while gunners go into action and RAF Hurricanes attack a ...

GB

An introduction for soldiers to far east warfare.

The film gives a background summary of the war in the far east up to 1942 and then goes on to describe the extent of the theatre of war, showing the differing sorts ...

GB

A commercial for Co-op tea in the guise of a documentary about tea production.

The film shows how tea is grown, picked and selected in Ceylon, and how in wartime it has to be shipped by convoy. A women making a pot ...

Great Britain

Tinted titles. "1B Tulun and Mohammed" "Ali Mosques" "Citadel. Dervishes" "Pyramids. Sphinx" "Luxor, Karnak and Thebes" - street scenes taken from rickshaw. "The Colossi of Memnon" "Assouan - Nile steamer to Abu-Simbel" "Wadi-Halfa" "Sudan ...

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

Scenes of RAF personnel in India casting their votes in the British General Election of July 1945.

Establishing shot showing a large thatched ...

BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

I. Task Group 111.3 at sea. LS from the cameraship HMS Belfast to Bermuda and Argonaut in line astern in rough sea - Bermuda is rolling heavily - the sky is overcast. Bermuda flashes a signal as the weather ...

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 WARIndia

In Burma elephants are used to bridge ...

Great Britain

Ladymead is a Georgian Mansion in which four generations of women have lived while their husbands are away at war. In each case the husband returns home expecting his wife to be unchanged.

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

British troops of 4th Indian Infantry Brigade under the command of Brigadier Forman leave Kyaukpyu (Burma) on the northern end of Ramree Island for the ...

Great Britain

Kenya. A District Development Team tackles disease, bad farming methods and ignorance.

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

The 4th Indian Division in Enfidaville are visited by the Corps Commander.

Indian signallers laying a line through the town as it is attacked by shell fire. Scenes ...

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Reel 1: (Can marking: Bombay Yacht Club, Willingdon, Ratnagiri, Susie Buchan) (Colour, US 1944 date mark) Murray by Indian beach. Served beer by waiter at sports club, around pool. English woman. Kabbadi wrestling. (US 1941 date mark) Close-ups of ...

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

Reel 1: A duck, the regimental mascot of 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, is seen wearing a miniature tunic (complete with medal ribbon of the 1939 - 43 Star) and ...

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

British and Indian Engineers of 54 Workshop Company are seen overhauling Japanese small arms captured after the fall of Rangoon, Burma.

A group of ...

Great Britain

Film about life in a typical English village. The people in the film go about their daily business: women are doing the laundry and other housework; the children go to school, where, amongst other things the girls are taught how to use a ...

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

Scenes of entertainment activities onboard the troopship HMT Dilwara.

A tug-of-war; Indian Other Ranks (ORs) versus British Other Ranks. The ...

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

Scenes at an airfield near Toungoo (Taungoo), Burma, shortly after its capture from troops of the Japanese 33rd Army.

View of the airstrip with a ...

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

General Leese (Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia) and General Rees (General Officer Commanding 19th Indian Division) observe the ...

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

HMS Glengyle, an infantry landing ship carrying men of 3 Commando Brigade, makes its way towards Hong Kong.

View aboard Glengyle with men of 3 ...

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

Artillery and infantry of 123 Brigade, 5th Indian Division, on the road to Toungoo (Taungoo), Burma, 140 miles north of Rangoon.

Self-propelled ...

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

Troops of 71st Brigade, 26th Indian Division, XV Corps enter Kyauktan (south west of Rangoon) and recently liberated Allied prisoners are seen at ...

GB

Amateur film by Major Edwin Chapman-Andrews, with full descriptive titles, shot while based on the staff of the C-in-C Middle East as Liaison Officer with Emperor Haile Selassie .

Film covers the campaign by static ...

United States of America

I. "Captured German 88mm gun." US ordnance crew inspect and test 88mm gun; it is resprayed with US markings.

II. "CBI Capture Tengyuch Burma Road Barrier." Capture of Tengyuch. Supplies arrive by parachute, ammunition ...

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

British soldiers of 77th Brigade, 3rd Indian Division in bush hats board a raft as others on board wait. Two small boats lashed together and full of men use an outboard motor to ...

BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

I. Reel One. Evacuation of British and Commonwealth prisoners of war from Hainan. Onboard a British cruiser, Captain RN talks with a small group of US officers - a Japanese officer is in attendance, looking ...

BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

I. Sequence shot from a Ruler Class escort carrier entering Hong Kong bay - possibly HMS Smiter.

II. HMS Duke of York enters Sydney harbour. HA onto focsle while at sea - men are laid out untidily, ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

25 Oct. 1943. The hospital ship Leinster arrives at Malta and ties up alongside the dockyard wharf. The patients are offloaded and put into ambulances. The hospital ship Dinard steams into the Grand ...

BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

Stretcher cases are taken up gangway onto hospital ship HMS Gerusalemme. Two men go up unaided - one shakes the hand of a naval lieutenant who has accompanied him to the foot of the gangway. Cut to interior of ...

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

A mobile column of motorised infantry and tanks drives to Ambarawa in Java, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) to evacuate Dutch civilian internees to ...

BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

I. Landing at Surabaya of 49th Indian Brigade, 25 October, 1945. LS broad on the starboard quarter of the Japanese torpedo boat Kiji at sea. Cameraship and companion pass through line of blockships, passing ...

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

Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Singapore, are evacuated by air from Kallang airport.

Group of freed prisoners ...

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

Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Changi Jail, Singapore, are evacuated by hospital ship.

Walking cases get into ...

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

Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity at Changi Jail in Singapore, are evacuated by hospital ship.

Crowd of freed ...

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

With the British reoccupation of Singapore, prisoners of war evacuated by ambulances from camps to waiting hospital ships, and Japanese troops are made to clean up the city ...

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

After being cut off by Japanese forces from the rest of the British force northeast of Letmauk, Burma, for two weeks the 2nd Brigade 82nd West African ...

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

Demonstrating the use of an RAF de Havilland Tiger Moth biplane to evacuate casualties from improvised landing areas to hospital on the Imphal front, ...

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

Record footage showing examples of Japanese propaganda circulated in Batavia (Jakarta) during their occupation of the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia ...

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

Part 1, shot by Sergeant Tulloch: Lieutenant-General Fukuye is hooded by a British military policeman (MP); a group includes the MPs, and a Japanese interpreter (?). Fukuye, hooded ...

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

Footage shot with live sound at Changi Jail, Singapore, showing three convicted Japanese war criminals being hanged.

Three shots, all taken from a ...

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

At Changi Jail, Singapore, three convicted Japanese war criminals are hanged.

Shot from beneath the gallows in the courtyard of Changi jail ...

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

At Changi Jail, Singapore, three convicted Japanese war criminals are hanged.

A hooded Japanese prisoner, probably Sergeant-Major Nobuo Iijima ( ...

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

In Rangoon Central Jail, Burma, three convicted Japanese war criminals are executed for their part in the Kalagon Massacre in July 1945.

The three ...