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    I. "Burma - latest newsreel highlights." a. Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese is met by his Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Sir Henry Pownall, and C-in-C Ceylon, Major General Wetherall, as he arrives in Colombo to take up his new appointment as ...

     
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    I. "Queen with NFS girls." The Queen, with Princess Elizabeth, is received by Herbert Morrison as she arrives to watch a parade in London by women of the National Fire Service, who afterwards demonstrate their fitness in an outdoor display.

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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 ...

     
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    I. "Mandalay Falls." No actual film of the entry of troops into Mandalay, but coverage of a village on the outskirts being pounded by artillery, view of General Rees at a forward position and film of Indian and British troops moving forward along a ...

     
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    I. "Italy. The Last Offensive." Mahratta troops from Central India move up before the 8th Army attack on the Senio River. Crocodile flame-throwers clear a path through an orchard.

    II. "In the Wake of the Hun." Eisenhower visits the ...

     
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    I. "Victory." As Big Ben strikes three o'clock, Churchill broadcasts a statement from his office: "Yesterday morning General Jodl and Admiral Doenitz signed the act of unconditional surrender... Hostilities will end at one minute past midnight on ...

     
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    BRITISH MOVIETONE NEWS

    Contains the items: Princess Launches Largest Tanker Gold in the Back Garden Easter Fashion For All Seretse Back in Bechuanaland Danny Kaye Here Again

     
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    BRITISH MOVIETONE NEWS

    Contains the items: Final Touches to Aintree Course Jet Power for Campbell's Speed Bid Amritsar's Ruins Mountbatten Leaves for India Australia's New Governor General Great Basuto Trek to Salute Royal Family

     
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    BRITISH MOVIETONE NEWS

    Includes item on the Conference on Pakistan held in New Delhi.

     
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    BRITISH MOVIETONE NEWS

    Includes item on Gandhi's fasts in India to bring about Hindu and Muslim unificaiton.