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Static views of recently-liberated Singapore.
Views across the Straits of Johore. Views of the countryside surrounding Singapore. An Australian ...
Scenes from Saigon, capital of French Indo-China (Vietnam), now occupied by 20th Indian Division.
Two British officers are saluted ...
Supplies are dropped from a Dakota to a forward Army division, and local Burmese villagers are employed to ...
RAF Supermarine Spitfires of RAF 155 Squadron escort Douglas Dakota transport aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, is seen en route to Singapore with General ...
The Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits Mandalay, Burma, with other senior ...
The Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, meets troops of 2nd Division, probably ...
The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, meets troops of 2nd Division.
A jeep marked ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command (SEAC), arrives by air in Rangoon, Burma, ...
The Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, makes a tour of inspection of ...
On a rainy day at Sungei Patani in Kedah, Malaya, thousands of men of the Japanese 94th Division ...
Japanese troops, probably of 53rd Division, 33rd Army, surrender their arms and equipment to men of 1st Battalion, ...
British troops seen coming ashore at Penang, Malaya (Malaysia), on parade and taking over Glugor seaplane base from ...
Infantry of 1st Battalion, 3rd Gurkha Rifles (99th Brigade, 17th Indian Division) supported by tanks, attack a Japanese ...
Supported by tanks, Gurkha infantry of 48th Brigade, 17th Indian Division, IV Corps, seen mopping up pockets of ...
Following the capture of Myingyan, north of Meiktila, Burma, Sherman tanks and infantry work together to flush out ...
Just to the rear of the fighting area in Taungtha, north-west of Meiktila, Burma, 5th Indian Division Recovery ...
Tanks and infantry of 63rd Brigade, 17th Indian Division, supported by aircraft, overcome unexpected Japanese resistance at the ...
Gurkha infantry of 63rd Brigade, supported by tanks and aircraft, attack a Japanese position at Payagyi, ten miles ...
Sherman medium tanks of 255th Indian Tank Brigade being used to consolidate 7th Division's bridgehead over the Irrawaddy ...
Scenes of peasant agriculture and Buddhist temple bells near Mandalay, Burma.
Burmese peasant farmers thresh grain using bullocks to ...
At Thanbyuzayat camp in Burma Asian forced labourers receive food, clothing and medical attention from the Civil Affairs ...
The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers' (REME) Light Aid Detachment of 8th (Belfast) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery ...
Tanks and men from 255th Armoured Brigade and 17th Indian Division spearhead the advance across the Irrawaddy River ...