139 Company AMPC (Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps) clearing debris in Bryanston Square and Park Crescent, London W1.

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139 Company under command of Major Hood MC, 2 Montagu Square, ...

Company of Indian members of the AMPC (Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps) (recruited mainly from Lascars at docks and ports) clearing up Sloane Street underground station, London, after air raid. Indian ...

Reel 1: A parked RAF Short Stirling transport aircraft with a white-painted Consolidated Liberator behind it. General view of the airfield at Mauripur. A Liberator lands. ...

Aircraft dropping supplies by parachute and evacuating wounded in support of 7th Indian Division, Fourteenth Army.

Men of Air Supply Company ...

Footage of various Allied transport aircraft taking off after being loaded with weaponry and mules for resupply operations.

Aircraft include ...

Men of 23rd Brigade shown reoccupying the village of Ukhrul in Manipur, India and being resupplied with food and other items by parachute supply ...

Scenes of RAF Liberator heavy bomber operations over Burma.

RAF Consolidated Liberator heavy bombers of RAF 159 Squadron at dispersal with ...

Demonstration of the ability of the R.R.A.F. to attack a target with a number of different levels of ferocity.

6 May. Seventeen Mitchell bombers flying in formation to bomb accompanied by nine Spitfires. A formation of Marauder bombers. Another formation of bombers.

Scots Guards vehicles passing a corner in ...

Air to air training shots filmed from the pilot's perspective at RAF Hornchurch in 1943. Pilot is C.J.S. Howard of 559 Squadron.

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Summary: C.J.S. Howard joined the Royal Air Force in 1941. Brief details of his military service as ...

Patients board a Handley Page Halifax aircraft for repatriation to the UK at Alipore airfield, Calcutta.

An RAF Avro Lancaster, fitted with ...

Brief film showing part of an air-sea rescue exercise with an airborne lifeboat Mk II near Singapore.

Six men onboard a motor launch trying to ...

Aerial shots from one of the Handley Page Hastings transport aircraft participating in the airborne assault on El Gamil.

LA.MS of Hastings transport in level flight right to left (the ...

Reel 1: Pan along a line of Indian Sikh troops cleaning their Ordnance ML 3-inch mortars. A three-man mortar team stands by their weapon, which a captain comes and inspects. ...

Gurkha paratroopers seen gearing up and boarding their aircraft before parachuting into action near Rangoon, Burma, as part of Operation Dracula ...

Documentary scenes showing the process of airfield construction in forward areas.

Various stages in the construction of an airfield, starting ...

The opening of the Kano International Airport in Nigeria, 4th may 1947.

Traditional greetings to visitors. A Comet airplane. Wing Commander Coleman, Director of Civil Aviation, at the official opening ceremony. Inspection of the ...

A coordinated attack takes place on Japanese positions along the Pindale to Mahlaing road north of Meiktila. Burma, involving artillery, North American ...

In northern Burma, American aircraft attack Japanese positions near Konkha and Major-General Festing visits the front line.

American P-47 ...

United States Army Air Force medium bombers attack pockets of Japanese resistance after the capture of Yamethin, Burma.

North American B-25 ...

AMATEUR. Film of local events in Ajmer province including the fair at Pushkar.

Camel race and general views of people and animals (35). Elephants (46). People (53). A food stall (58). Street scene showing stalls and buildings (82). ...

AKC News Parade film No.323, 13 April 1959; including visit of Prince Philip to Christmas Island; floods in Madagascar; the journey of US nuclear submarine USS Skate to the North Pole, and the scattering of the ashes of the Australian explorer, Sir ...

ACTUALITY. The knighting of the Alake of Abeokuta by the Governor General, Sir John MacPherson, in the presence of the Governor of the Western Region, Sir John Regan.

Edited scenes showing the ceremony on the parade ground, Saint Patrick's Barracks, Ballymena; also includes recruits from St Helena delivering family messages to camera, and a message from ...