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Agricultural Show; visit to Tai O; launching a ferry boat; H.R.H. Prince Philip visits Hong Kong.

Fisher Collection

Holiday shots on Lantau Island.

Fisher Collection

Dragon Boat Festival and dragon boat races.

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Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII of Siam (Thailand), is received at a garden party thrown by Lord Louis Mountbatten (Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia) ...

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I. "African Troops In Madagascar." African troops disembark in order to protect Britain's sea-lines and to save the island "from being bartered to the enemy by the treachery of Vichy marionettes". Fake tom tom music accompanies a view of the troops ...

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I. "Italy blitzed!" Scenes of the production of "even bigger and more beautiful bombs" (filling 2000-lb casings with explosives) introduce aerial film of a night raid on Genoa. Flares and bombs explode over a wide area as the commentary justifies ...

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The events in Karachi and in Delhi around Independence Day, 15 August 1947.

On the eve of independence, Jinnah (the new Governor General of Pakistan) and Lord and Lady Mountbatten arrive at the Constituent Assembly ...

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I. Review of the Year 1943": "The Home Front": The U-Boat war turned in Britain's favour. Tribute to the RAF: scenes in an aircraft factory; shots of damage in Hamburg and Berlin. Third Anniversary of the Home Guard. The first prisoners ...

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I. "Bomber Assault - Bostons hit Valenciennes": Daylight aerial shots show British bombs falling on the assembly sheds, forges, and steel foundries of Valenciennes.

II. "Mr Churchill Returns from Moscow": the first meeting between the ...

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I. "The Seven Seas": HMS Duke of York sinks the Scharnhorst. The RAF's Coastal command in action. Bomber Command sinks the Tirpitz.

II. "The Far East Front": Americans land on the Marshall Islands, General MacArthur retakes the Philippines. ...

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I. "Pacific Battlefront": A tribute to the endurance of Australian troops engaged in jungle warfare in New Guinea, and to the bushboys who assist them.

II. "Further Advances in New Guinea": Australians in Papua get support from the Royal ...

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I. "The Russian Front": aerial strafing of German columns and railways in snowy conditions on the way to Kastornoe.

II. "More air attacks on Italy": A bombing raid on Rome (short, badly cut).

III. "Forest Fire in America": blazing ...

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I. "Three-Power Conference in North Africa": Churchill calls at Malta, then proceeds to Cairo to meet President Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-Shek, and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, November, 1943.

II. "Prison Ship on the Rocks": A ship carrying Germans ...

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I. "Three Phases of the World At War": Scenes of the Philippine Islands include damage on Luzon.

II. "Defence of the Caribbean": Interceptor Command of the Caribbean Air Force cooperates with the US Navy in defending the Panama Canal Zone, ...

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Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in the Middle East, General Auchinleck, arrives at Nicosia Aerodrome, Cyprus. Plane landing, Hurricane escort. The General alights from the plane and is greeted by ...

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Part 1, filmed between 16 and 22 December 1943: Auchinleck meets ...

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A cameraman accompanies General Sir ...

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

General Sir Claude Auchinleck, ...

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Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia, visits east African troops in Rangoon, capital of reoccupied Burma ...

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General Sir George Giffard, commander of 11th Army Group, visits 25th Indian Division during a tour of inspection near Maungdaw, Burma.

Giffard, ...

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20 Aug. 1943. General Giraud is greeted at Luqa Airfield by Air Vice Marshal Sir Keith Park and Major General W H Oxley. He inspects the RAF Regiment Guard of Honour and proceeds to Verdalla Palace where ...

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With the Japanese capitulation General Heitaro Kimura and his staff surrender their swords to their British counterparts in a formal ceremony at Twelfth ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

With the Japanese capitulation General Heitaro Kimura and his staff surrender their swords to their British counterparts in a formal ceremony at Twelfth ...

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General Sir Frank Messery, General Officer Commanding Malaya, opens a Bailey bridge built by Royal Indian Engineers of the Queen Victoria's Own Madras ...