In northern Burma, American aircraft attack Japanese positions near Konkha and Major-General Festing visits the front line.

American P-47 ...

United States Army Air Force medium bombers attack pockets of Japanese resistance after the capture of Yamethin, Burma.

North American B-25 ...

A survey of the strategic situation of the British Empire in the Far East in the face of "an outside" threat (obviously Japan).

The film, like the pattern of strength it seeks to portray, is based on Singapore ("one ...

Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, visits No. 4 Squadron Indian Air Force on Ramree Island off Burma's Arakan coast ...

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 ...

Allied prisoners of war, liberated from Japanese captivity, are seen at Kallang airfield, Singapore.

Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de ...

A history of the battles, fought predominantly by Australian troops, to block the Japanese conquest of New Guinea and then to recapture the island.

A general introduction stresses the conventional military defeats ...

Scenes of an Allied victory parade, mounted in monsoon weather in Rangoon, capital of Burma, on 15 June 1945.

Wide shot of a parade in progress at ...

Scenes of an Allied victory parade, mounted in monsoon weather in Rangoon, capital of Burma, on 15 June 1945.

A detachment of sailors of the Royal ...

Scenes of an Allied victory parade, mounted in monsoon weather in Rangoon, capital of Burma, on 15 June 1945.

A unit of sailors passes the ...

Scenes of an Allied victory parade, mounted in monsoon weather in Rangoon, capital of Burma on 15 June 1945.

Royal Marines, providing the guard of ...

Scenes of an Allied victory parade, mounted in monsoon weather in Rangoon, capital of Burma on 15 June 1945.

Civilians spectators gathering on the ...

Scenes of an Allied victory parade, mounted in monsoon weather in Rangoon, capital of Burma, on 15 June 1945.

Wide shot of a parade ground at ...

Scenes of an Allied victory parade, mounted in monsoon weather, in the Burmese capital Rangoon, 15 June 1945.

Views from a high point overlooking ...

Close-ups of senior Allied officers, shot for editing purposes, during an Allied victory parade in Rangoon, Burma.

Series of medium close-ups of ...

Film showing the use of Alligator tracked amphibious vehicles during landings at Ru-Ywa, in the Arakan region of Burma.

Various shots of an ...

Amateur film of a young woman surrounded by crowds on an Indian street. Colonel Hodgkinson does not identify who Althya is - it is possible that she is Althya Clark Youngman, an American ...

Part 1: On the main thoroughfare in Batavia Ambonese troops have established a roadblock and stopped a passing car. The car is flying red and white Indonesian pennants. The ...

'"How better ways of feeding children came to an African village".

A Story told in the traditional idiom of an African folk tale. Why so many babies die - and what to do about it if you want the babies to live. Foriwa has a baby. Like many women ...

At an investiture at Government House, Singapore, Major-General Thomas Terry US Army presents medals to Lieutenant-General Messervy and other British ...

At Katha, on the River Irrawaddy in northern Burma, American signalmen lay a telephone line across the river.

Views of the linesmen at work on a ...

Aerial shots of the damage done to Myitkyina, Burma, by American forces in the area who were shelling the Japanese garrison; buildings are badly damaged and some are still burning ...

At a jetty men carry belts of ammunition. The belts are passed below decks. The harbour as the boat leaves. 0.5-inch twin Vickers turret traverses left to right and then is ...

The work of the United Missions in the Copperbelt at Mindolo and Nkana, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia).

Title and credits. The undeveloped country except for a few chimneys and mine workshops. Young African women join husbands and are ...

Scenes of Supermarine Sea Otter amphibious biplanes in flight and the burning wreckage of a Sea Otter shot down over Akyab Island (Sittwe), Burma ...

A Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF 230 Squadron and DUKW amphibians are used to evacuate casualties of 111th Brigade during Operation River, May- ...

Troops of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen aboard HMS Prins Albert before making an amphibious landing on the banks of the Rangoon river, ...

Troops of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen making an amphibious landing on the banks of the Rangoon river, Burma, as part of Operation ...

Troops of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen making an amphibious landing on the banks of the Rangoon river, Burma, as part of Operation ...

Troops of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen making an amphibious landing on the banks of the Rangoon river, Burma, as part of Operation ...

British and Indian troops of 25th Indian Division are put ashore by the Royal Indian Navy at Ru-Ywa in the coastal Arakan region of Burma.

A ...

Aerial views of an amphibious landing by 25th Indian Division at Ru-Ywa in the coastal Arakan region of Burma.

Aerial views of landing craft, ...

Indian troops, probably of 26th Indian Division, board Royal Indian Navy landing craft from a beach at Ramree Island, off the Arakan coast of Burma, ...

Troops of 3 Commando Brigade assault the Myebon peninsula in the Arakan coastal region of Burma, with the support of tanks, aircraft and naval gunfire ...

In order to speed the surrender of Japanese forces at Ramree town (on Ramree Island in the Arakan region of Burma) Royal Indian Navy (RIN) landing ...

A Gurkha of the 3rd Battalion 2nd Gurkha Rifles has a leg amputated in a field hospital at Myebon, Burma, after he was captured and left for dead by the ...

START 10:33:25 Two Ford 98T 3-ton lorries deliver the performers and prefabricated theatre pavilion belonging to the East Africa Command's African Entertainment Unit to an East African Command camp somewhere in Kenya. Members of the entertainment ...

START 10:16:29 A morning parade for seven African NCOs and 27 Other Ranks wearing white cook's uniform serving with 10th Field Bakery. They march to the camp bakery and hold out their hands for inspection by three British officers, probably the camp ...

Scenes of a visit by an Indian Maharajah to an RAF field hospital near Imphal.

The Maharajah arrives by car and is greeted by Air Commodore ...

Part of an RAF Wing and an RAF Regiment Squadron moves across some difficult terrain to a new forward base in Burma.

Wrecked bridge at Toungoo. ...

Scenes in Andimeshk, Iran. US Dodge lorries handed over by US personnel to Soviet personnel, who drive them away.

Notes

Remarks: no dope sheet in file.

In Saigon, capital of French Indo-China (Vietnam), British, Indian and French troops mark the first Armistice Day since the end of the war.

Four ...

Good practice in animal husbandry illustrated through the daily life of a Kenyan cattle farmer. He milks cows, delivers milk to the dairy, looks after cattle, castrates bulls. The Veterinary Service helps to improve his livestock.

START 00:00:00 Colour footage of animals at Durban Zoo, South Africa: a lion and lioness in their enclosure. Seals by a pool. A rhinoceros in its enclosure. Ostriches in their enclosure.

00:00:34. Colour footage of birds at Colombo Zoo, Sri ...

DOCUMENTARY. The life of British scientists stationed in Graham Islands in the Falkland Islands Dependencies.

At a Field Ambulance unit near Pauktabin in central Burma, British troops of 36th Division receive typhoid inoculations.

A syringe is taken out of ...

The film covers the area between the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea. Views of the hill country of Palestine, the desert, an Arab village and herds of goat. In the north there are views of the Lebanon mountains and general views of the region.