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Reel 1: A carpenter at work among palm trees. An armourer carries a Browning machine gun. Close-up of carpenter. Close-up ...
During a lull in fighting in the Maungdaw area of Arakan, Burma, British troops of 25th Indian Division ...
Scenes showing RAF Douglas Dakota aircraft being loaded and refuelled prior to supply operations from Chandina, India.
Dakota aircraft ...
A line of Burmese labourers queue up to receive their payment of money (1 rupee, about 1 shilling sixpence at ...
Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits the Kohima and Imphal fronts, India.
Mountbatten arrives ...
Lord Munster, Under-Secretary of State for India makes a tour of welfare inspection of British troops in India.
Lord ...
Infantry of the Assam Rifles seen preparing various traps during jungle warfare training at Sadiya, Assam, India.
Wide shot; ...
Indian troops of 2nd Battalion 1st Punjab Regiment (123rd Brigade, 5th Indian Division) seen on patrol in the ...
Edited footage showing joint American and British military police activities in Calcutta, India.
City scene showing a stationary tram ...
Muddy frontline conditions are emphasised through shots of airmen wading through waterlogged airfield perimeter trenches, and later pushing ...
Brief film showing vehicles of 5th Indian Division struggling in muddy conditions on the Tiddim Road, Burma.
Vehicles negotiating ...
At a Remount Depot and Veterinary Hospital, mules are treated and trained ready for service on the Burma ...
India' s most popular instruments.
Title card: 'Musical Instruments of India' over picture of instruments. Rolling script: 'Part of the ...
Naga refugees shown tending a church garden and graveyard (including British graves), and rebuilding their shattered village of ...
Following the withdrawal of Japanese forces, troops of 29th Brigade (36th Division) occupy the town of Indaw, Burma.
Wrecked ...
Shirtless men queue for their dinner in the open air; their tents can be seen in the background. A mug ...
Men of the Air Supply Company, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, packing a variety of material ready for ...
A travelogue of Palestine.
Includes scenes in Haifa, the Sea of Galilee, Tiberius, Capernium, Jericho, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and the daily ...
High angle shots from roof of Secretariat building of procession moving though Columbo with civilians all around. Twelve Spitfire Mk ...
After the victory at Tamu, Burma, troops of 1st Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders retire to a rest ...
RAF Douglas Dakota aircraft, operating from Chandina, seen resupplying troops with food and ammunition at Murdoch and Taung ...
Indians and Britons compete at an inter-Service athletics meeting, hosted by the RAF at Charbatia, north of Cuttack, ...
Scenes of RAF airmen preparing for a Bristol Beaufighter sortie over Burma.
Airborne footage of flight over coastal areas ...
After monsoon weather washes away an RAF church five days before a special Thanksgiving Service, a new church ...
The RAF demonstrates close support techniques in cooperation with a British armoured unit.
Wide shot of an open plain ...
Footage of RAF Hawker Hurricane pilots preparing for an attack on Japanese positions on the Imphal front, India.
Aerial ...
Reel 1: Men gathered around sketch map. Close-up with finger pointing out various locations. A Burmese instructor in front of ...
Reel 1: Supermarine Spitfire with control tower in background. Hawker Hurricanes with propellors spinning before taxiing away past camera. Douglas ...
Reel 1: Docks on the Hooghly River, Calcutta; river craft are unloaded. Two men stand on top of a lorry ...
Scenes of RAF anti-mosquito operations around Imphal, India.
Three Hawker Hurricanes overhead spraying kerosene and DDT. Shot of two ...
Air Commodore Mellersh RAF, Air Commander Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command and Air Vice Marshal Stevens of ...
Drama-documentary about a Methodist mission founded in 1816 in Colombo, which helps young tea-plantation workers to learn new skills.
Reel One.
Scenes ...
British engineers and infantry of 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers (29th Brigade, 36th Division) seen at work on ...
Reel 1: Medium shot showing a tent, a look-out post up a tree, and two parked vehicles. One of the ...
Scenes on the road lines of communication from Dimapur, India, to Kalewa, Burma.
Aerial footage of the road in ...
A jeep carrying four men and towing a trailer full of medical supplies pulls up. Two men examine the trailer ...
RAF and Royal Navy salvage personnel attempt to recover a sunken Short Sunderland flying boat from the River ...
Men of 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment (of 23rd Long-Range Penetration (LRP) Brigade, part of 3rd Indian Division (also known as ...
A senior British officer of 26th Indian Division meets Burmese civilians.
A group of servicemen, presumably Army officers, seen ...
Sir Ronald Cross, British High Commissioner to Australia, visits Imphal airfield and is received by Air Commodore Vincent.
Lockheed ...
An intelligence officer briefs pilots of RAF 136 Squadron at Rumkhapalong airfield, whose Supermarine Spitfires kick up clouds ...
The 81st West African Division is in the process of pushing the Japanese from Mowdok, India (Bangladesh) to ...
Film showing the movement of supplies from the port of Chittagong, India (Bangladesh), to Dohazari and onwards by ...
The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits officers and men of 3rd Special ...
Travelogue across part of South India with specific interest in the temples of the region. Both the beauty and the ...
On 17 July 1944 the greatest barrage ever laid down on a single target took place when one ...
As the fight begins to take Burma back from the Japanese the Chindits mount long range patrols in ...
Scenes of the first Women's Auxiliary Air Force personnel arriving in Bombay and sightseeing in Delhi.
Troopship approaches dockside ...