View from the steps of the Municipal Building as Gimson's car draws up and he gets out. Troops and spectators at the top of the steps; Gimson leaves and descends the steps. He ...
Lord Munster, Under-Secretary of State for India, arrives in the Arakan, Burma
Earl of Munster arriving at an RAF station where he is met by ...
A battery of the 1st Medium Regiment Royal Artillery in action as support for the beachhead operations of 100 Brigade, 20th Indian Divison at Myinmu, ...
1st Medium Regiment Royal Artillery in action near Myinmu, Burma.
An artillery piece is loaded and fired on Japanese positions as support for ...
A Japanese prisoner of war (POW) is escorted to a POW cage near Imphal by a number of African soldiers.
A British soldier stands by the roadside ...
African troops (askaris), probably of the 11th East African Division, are seen training in jungle country in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
African soldiers, ...
Tribeswoman with baby on her back, hut on top of steep hillside. Villagers (the Puroiks (Sulungs)? in Assam), cockerel, exotic flowers, leaf insect, green snake, cutting trees, building hut, fire, cutting logs, making ...
Assam tribal dances taken in Shillong when Lord Mountbatten arrived in 1947.
At Donbaik, on the Mayu penisula in the ...
A rough road in countryside. A pall of smoke rises and debris lies around a XXXIII Indian Corps ammunition dump. The remains of ammunition boxes lie around a still smoldering pile. ...
Short film shot by an Indian cameraman ...
ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) recruits at a camp in Sarafand, Palestine. The women are from Palestine, Yemen, Transjordan, India and there are also Jewish exiles from Europe. The staff are mainly ...
Concerted attacks by the RAF and British Army on Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma are seen both from the air and from the ground.
Airborne view ...
A mortar battery of 56th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, along with tanks and aircraft, supports an attack on Kennedy Peak, Burma, by 5th Indian ...
Troops of 17th Indian Division seen attacking the village of Pyawbwe, on the road to Rangoon, Burma, and scenes after its capture.
Footage taken ...
As troops of 2nd Division advance towards Ywathitgyi on the River Irrawaddy in Burma, field and medium artillery provide support, along with heavy ...
General Sir Claude Auchinleck, ...
Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in- ...
General Sir Claude Auchinleck inspects ...
On a wet day in Rangoon, capital of Burma, a pro-independence rally sees Aung San address a large crowd at the Thein Byu football ground.
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Pilots of an Artillery Air Observation Post (AOP) Squadron, attached to 26th Indian Division, practice landing in confined areas on Ramree Island, Burma ...
Australian soldiers of 1st Parachute Battalion lay on a Christmas party for children, both local and from a nearby camp of freed Dutch internees, in ...
An edition of Fox Movietone News, Australian ...
