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

After the occupation of Ramree Island, ...

INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

Film by an American cameraman showing a Fairmile B motor launch beached on the Kaleindaung river, in the Arakan coastal region of Burma.

A motor ...

INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

After six years service in India on internal security duties, troops of the Bhairab Nath battalion of the Nepalese Army return to Kathmandu.

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ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

The new Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, arrives at Ratmalana airport in Columbo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

The retiring ...

Australia

I. "Victoria: Land Army girls supply much of Melbourne's food." Girls on horseback and picking onions and peaches.

II. "Sydney: 'Rats of Tobruk' commemorate historic siege." Wreaths are laid at the Cenotaph before a flashback recalls the ...

Australia

I. a. HMS Illustrious and King George V in Sydney Harbour are a "renewed reminder of Britain's naval might. Ornamental guncap sovereigns are fitted to the guns of the latter ship. A Hindu Midshipman on board "gives the Empire touch." Close up ...

GB, United States of America

I. "Britain's fastest plane." View of the Gloster Meteor jet on the ground and in flight.

II. "Burma liberated. British take Rangoon!" (News of the Day). Troops come ashore during an amphibious attack; paratroops land; ...

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

British troops of No. 5 Army Commando round up Japanese troops at Fanling, 20 miles from Kowloon, before putting them on a train to an internment camp ...

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

At an East African Reinforcement Camp an entertainment unit stages a show for troops of 11th East African Division.

Close-up of poster advertising ...

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

Men of No. 6 Air Formation Signals RAF seen at work laying and repairing telephone lines at Mingaladon airfield in Rangoon, Burma.

An RAF ...

Mountbatten and party, including US Army Lieutenant-General Joseph Stilwell, passes camera. Mountbatten meets British troops. At an airfield British and American officers shake hands. Mountbatten departs by Douglas Dakota transport aircraft (serial ...

Great Britain

A trip by truck from Nairobi into the semi-arid Northern Frontier Districts.