Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command (SEAC), arrives by air in Rangoon, Burma, before visiting liberated British ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command (SEAC), arrives by air in Rangoon, Burma, before visiting liberated British ...
On the eve of the Japanese surrender in South East Asia, interned Japanese personnel are put to work in Singapore.
Japanese prisoners of war doing ...
At MacArthur Camp Lord and Lady Mountbatten talk with officers. Mountbatten inspects a guard of honour. He speaks with an Indian POW. He meets a number of officers and men. He ...
Troops of 25th Indian Division make an amphibious landing on the coast of Malaya at Morib as part of Operation Zipper.
Troops making their way ...
7th Indian Division of IV Corps prepare to set up a beachhead across the Irrawaddy River, to coincide with XXXIII Corps advance on Mandalay, Burma, and ...
At the Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, the commander of Japanese 29th Army (Lieutenant-General Ishiguro) surrenders to the commander of ...
Static views of recently-liberated Singapore.
Views across the Straits of Johore. Views of the countryside surrounding Singapore. An Australian ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, is seen en route to Singapore with General Slim, commander-in-chief Allied ...
With the surrender of Japan, troops of 23rd Indian Division mount an amphibious landing near Port Dickson on the Malayan coast, as part of Operation ...
The Right Reverend Leonard Wilson, Bishop of Singapore, holds a church service at Kranji prisoner of war camp in Singapore, following the liberation of ...
A Douglas C-54 Skymaster aircraft of the United States Army Air Force arrives at Kallang Airport, Singapore, to evacuate American internees.
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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 ...
Before the formal Japanese surrender ceremony in Singapore, surrendered Japanese troops clean up the city while freed Allied prisoners and local ...
Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Changi Jail, Singapore, are evacuated by hospital ship.
Walking cases get into ...
British troops of 3rd Special Service Brigade land unopposed on a beach on Akyab Island (Sittwe), in the Arakan region of Burma.
A flotilla of ...
Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Singapore, are evacuated by air from Kallang airport.
Group of freed prisoners ...
Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity at Changi Jail in Singapore, are evacuated by hospital ship.
Crowd of freed ...
The Right Reverend Leonard Wilson, Bishop of Singapore, holds a church service at Kranji prisoner of war camp in Singapore, following the liberation of ...
Internees climbing a gangway to board HMS Sussex. Reverse angle showing same. Civilian ex-internees (on the flag deck?) with a Royal Navy signaller. Internees looking at a six- ...
Recently liberated Allied prisoners of war and internees are shown around the Royal Navy London Class heavy cruiser HMS Sussex, and seen in hospital ...
Lieutenant-General Raymond Wheeler US Army, is invested as an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE), while Admiral Lord Louis ...
Lieutenant-General Raymond Wheeler US Army, is invested as an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE), while Lord Louis Mountbatten ...
Scenes from Saigon, capital of French Indo-China (Vietnam), now occupied by 20th Indian Division.
Two British officers are saluted by a Japanese ...
Brigadier Taunton, commander of 80th Indian Brigade (20th Indian Division) arrives at a Japanese airfield in Saigon as recovered Allied prisoners of war ...
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 ...
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 ...
With the surrender of Japanese forces in Singapore, interned Japanese troops are put to work on manual labour tasks.
Human chain of Japanese ...
With the surrender of Japanese forces in Singapore, interned Japanese troops are put to work on manual labour tasks.
Japanese troops shovelling a ...
Party of Japanese medical orderlies wearing gauze face masks. Two Japanese with notebooks; one of them is making notes. Medics disinfecting their hands. A Malay labourer, very thin ...
Record footage showing examples of Japanese propaganda circulated in Batavia (Jakarta) during their occupation of the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia ...
Troops of 2nd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment, 4th Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment and the 4th Battalion 1st Gurkha Rifles cross the Irrawaddy River ...
Japanese troops, probably of 53rd Division, 33rd Army, surrender their arms and equipment to men of 1st Battalion, 10th Gurkha Rifles (63rd Brigade, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Suspected Japanese war criminals are imprisoned at Stanley prison, Hong Kong.
The gates of Stanley prison slide open as a lorry carrying suspected ...
Crowd watching from rails at the Royal Turf Club in Bangkok; camera pans to follow the horses. Rear quarter close-up of British spectator. British other ranks of 1st Battalion ...
At Bangkok jail suspected Japanese war criminals are paraded in front of ex-prisoners of war and internees in order for them to be identified.
A ...
Interned Japanese civilians and troops are put to work in Singapore, now reoccupied by the Allies.
Various views of Japanese civil internees at ...
162 members of the Kempeitai, the Japanese secret police, are jailed at Taiping in Perak, Malaya.
Column of Japanese marching through Taiping with ...