The RAF demonstrates close support techniques in cooperation with a British armoured unit.

Wide shot of an open plain with a pall of smoke. ...

Scenes of the first Women's Auxiliary Air Force personnel arriving in Bombay and sightseeing in Delhi.

Troopship approaches dockside in Bombay. ...

Indians and Britons compete at an inter-Service athletics meeting, hosted by the RAF at Charbatia, north of Cuttack, Orissa, India.

VIP's ...

Footage of various Allied transport aircraft taking off after being loaded with weaponry and mules for resupply operations.

Aircraft include ...

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

Newsreel items (mute) including production of India rubber, capture of Tiddim (Burma) and South African Navy at sea.

The 81st West African Division is in the process of pushing the Japanese from Mowdok, India (Bangladesh) to the Kaladan River, Burma.

Through a ...

A tank track is repaired. A soldier takes a lump hammer to part of the tracks. Damaged bogeys on the tank. One man holds a small section of track as another uses a torque wrench on ...

After fierce fighting British and Indian soldiers inspect the damage to the town of Tiddim, Burma.

General view of the town of Tiddim in the ...

A sign reads "Tiddim Bye-Pass (sic). Through Traffic". Indian troops with rifles, picks and shovels walk along a jungle-lined road. Jeeps laden with men and supplies drive along ...

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 ...

British soldiers and supplies wait on a rough road. A jeep and trailer come along the road; there is a steep drop on one side of the road and the jeep looks perilously close to the ...