OBJECTIVE, BURMA! 1945
Group of American paratroopers are dropped 180 miles behind Japanese lines. Group splits into two. One group is killed and tortured the other is successful in its mission.
Group of American paratroopers are dropped 180 miles behind Japanese lines. Group splits into two. One group is killed and tortured the other is successful in its mission.
Shot on 16 September 1945: three Japanese representatives of the Ipoh garrison pass camera. Interior footage; the Japanese officers meet officers of Force 136 (Special Operations ...
British troops of 5th Parachute Brigade round up the Japanese garrison of Singkep Island, off Sumatra south of Singapore, who are transported by sea to ...
Offcuts? of amateur film of oilfields in Burma (possibly the Yenangyaung oilfields?).
Brief shot of a British man. Oil wells, some close-ups of the machinery.
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START 00:00:00 04:09 Title card 'Trincomalee Harbour. Royalist "Ameer" "Hunter"'. A voyage around the anchorage in the Bay of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), in a motor launch past the light anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Royalist, flagship of the 21st ...
British troops of 4th Indian Infantry Brigade proceed from Kyaukpyu on Ramree Island, Burma up the Thanzit River.
Indian troops sit on the deck of ...
Variety of scenes of an advance by 5th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Division, near Mount Popa (approximately 40 miles west of Meiktila, Burma) showing ...
Amphibious landings on the banks of the Rangoon River and advance on the city.
Cameraman in one of a flotilla of LCAs proceeding in line ahead up the Rangoon River - the line ...
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After nationalist disturbances close the roads to Saigon, capital of French Indo-China, a convoy named 'Operation Saltmeat' is mounted from Phnom Penh ( ...
I. A walk around Diyatalawa camp extension in Ceylon. Scenes include Craighton Village, waterfalls at Nuwara Eliya, Adams Peak and tea plantations. This material is duplicated with some additional scenes under ...
Home movie shot during the embarkation and landings of Operation Zipper, September, 1945.
This film shows troopships assembling in an unidentified Indian port and Australian and Indian troops ...