On a rainy day at Sungei Patani in Kedah, Malaya, thousands of men of the Japanese 94th Division surrender, while the officers of the division lay down ...
On a rainy day at Sungei Patani in Kedah, Malaya, thousands of men of the Japanese 94th Division surrender, while the officers of the division lay down ...
Japanese troops, probably of 53rd Division, 33rd Army, surrender their arms and equipment to men of 1st Battalion, 10th Gurkha Rifles (63rd Brigade, ...
Film sequences not in chronological order. CUs of lattice mast of a Ruler Class escort carrier (either HMS Hunter or HMS Attacker) flying the Dutch, French, US and White Ensigns, and a 'V for Victory' flag. MS ...
British troops seen coming ashore at Penang, Malaya (Malaysia), on parade and taking over Glugor seaplane base from the Japanese.
The tote ...
Infantry of 1st Battalion, 3rd Gurkha Rifles (99th Brigade, 17th Indian Division) supported by tanks, attack a Japanese position at Okpo, 8 miles south ...
Supported by tanks, Gurkha infantry of 48th Brigade, 17th Indian Division, IV Corps, seen mopping up pockets of Japanese resistance at Yewe near Yindaw, ...
Following the capture of Myingyan, north of Meiktila, Burma, Sherman tanks and infantry work together to flush out resistance from Japanese held ...
Just to the rear of the fighting area in Taungtha, north-west of Meiktila, Burma, 5th Indian Division Recovery Company workshop work to keep the ...
Tanks and infantry of 63rd Brigade, 17th Indian Division, supported by aircraft, overcome unexpected Japanese resistance at the village of Pyinbongyi, ...
Gurkha infantry of 63rd Brigade, supported by tanks and aircraft, attack a Japanese position at Payagyi, ten miles north of Pegu near Milestone 60 on ...
Sherman medium tanks of 255th Indian Tank Brigade being used to consolidate 7th Division's bridgehead over the Irrawaddy River, Burma.
Tanks ...
LS off the starboard beam of HMS Euryalus steaming in calm sea. LS of HMS Indomitable. MS forward along starboard deck edge to island of cameraship, HMS Venerable - the ship's crane is swung inboard and a ...
I. Reel One. Rear-Admiral Harcourt transfers his flag to HMS Swiftsure for entry into Hong Kong. HA.MS from Swiftsure as ship's boat approaches carrying Harcourt and his staff. Harcourt comes onboard and greets ...
Scenes of peasant agriculture and Buddhist temple bells near Mandalay, Burma.
Burmese peasant farmers thresh grain using bullocks to trample it ...
I. HA.MS onto focsle decks of two destroyers running abreast on portside of cameraship HMS King George V - the nearer destroyer has the more modern dual-purpose main armament. Ratings heave on a line to bring ...
Elements of TG 111.3 arrive at Kiirun in Formosa for the evacuation of POWs. Cameraship HMS Argonaut.
HMS Bermuda heads inshore, followed by HMS Argonaut and HMS Quiberon. They ...
General Sturdee, GOC First Australian Army, accepts the surrender of Japanese forces in the Bismarcks, Solomons and New Guinea on the flightdeck of HMS Glory off Rabaul on 6 ...
Views of traditional life in S. Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) to illustrate the tribal background to missionary work.
London - Thames scenes - Big Ben, buses over bridge, barges, workmen, loading ship from barge, liner `Warwick Castle' ...
At Thanbyuzayat camp in Burma Asian forced labourers receive food, clothing and medical attention from the Civil Affairs Service (Burma) before being ...
The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers' (REME) Light Aid Detachment of 8th (Belfast) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery have set up an ...
Shot on 3 March 1945: Indian infantry of a battalion of the Frontier Force (probably 9th Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles) advancing towards the village of Nagthayauk; they ...
Tanks and men from 255th Armoured Brigade and 17th Indian Division spearhead the advance across the Irrawaddy River towards Meiktila, Burma, and en ...
As 17th Indian Division (IV Corps) approach Meiktila, Burma, they encounter more evidence of Japanese sabotage to halt the British progress when a ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, accompanied by his wife Edwina, visit areas of Singapore related to the recovery of ...