Onboard the Royal Navy Nelson-class battleship HMS Nelson Japanese officers surrender the port and city of Penang, Malaya (Malaysia) to the Allies ...

RAF Hawker Hurricane fighter-bombers conduct an exercise in close air support near Meiktila, central Burma.

A plume of dust and smoke from an ...

British servicemen go riding in Darjeeling, Bengal Province, India.

A mountain range shrouded with cloud. Five British servicemen ride along a ...

Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and civilian internees are liberated from Japanese captivity and evacuated by RAF aircraft to Kallang Airport, ...

Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape, commander of the British Pacific Fleet, arrives at Hong Kong before the formal Japanese ...

Spitfires of RAF 132 Squadron operate at Kai Tak airstrip, Kowloon, Hong Kong, and adopt two local Chinese boys.

View of Kai Tak airstrip; the ...

Indian troops, many of whom had been overseas for several years serving in Africa and the Mediterranean, are flown home to India and arrive at RAF ...

Rear Admiral C H J Harcourt, Senior British Naval Officer Hong Kong, inspects airmen and aircraft of RAF 132 Squadron at Kai Tak airfield, Kowloon, ...

Japanese internees arrive at Kai Tak airstrip, Kowloon, Hong Kong, for a day of labour under RAF supervision.

Two lorry loads of Japanese ...

The reopening of the Kowloon-Lo Wu railway line gets off to a decidedly mixed start, and RAF men mix with Chinese soldiers.

View looking along ...

Units of the National Revolutionary Army (Chinese Nationalist army) march through Hong Kong.

A crowd of Chinese civilians is supervised by ...

Air Chief Commandant Lady R M E Welsh, Director of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force ('the WAAFs') visits No. 9 RAF General Hospital in Calcutta, India ...