Airmen armed with Sten submachine guns walk along a dusty road with bullock carts passing in the ...
Airmen armed with Sten submachine guns walk along a dusty road with bullock carts passing in the ...
.Indian troops, including a number of ... point had crossed the Irrawaddy and received orders to advance south on Mandalay. 62nd Brigade had its flank on the river, ...
A queue of motor vehicles, mostly ... and Punjabi troops which was tasked with driving to Mandalay. This is probably referring to 'Stiletto Force' which comprised ...
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These events form part of XXXIII Corps' crossing of the Irrawaddy before the advance on Mandalay. 19th Indian Division and 20th Indian Division were to cross first, with 2nd British Division crossing after and ...
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Tigyaing is almost due north of Mandalay and about 30 miles south of Katha. 36th Division was part of the multinational Northern Combat Area Command, and at ...
The Burma Regiment had its origins in the Burma Frontier Force. The BFF was raised from units of the Burma ...
Troops of 33rd Indian Infantry Brigade, 7th Indian ...
III. "Attack and capture of Mandalay." Map of Burma. Japanese soldiers, who since March have ... of Gustav Holst's Planets on the track. Signpost to Mandalay indicates distance of 82 miles. Demolition of bridge by retreating ...
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No slates, date on dopesheet noted as approximate.
Dopesheet adds: 'These shots taken shortly after ...
View from Mandalay Hill; a Republic Thunderbolt fighter aircraft ... a number of service and commercial cameraman, to Mandalay Hill. For other coverage of this visit, see related items.
Mandalay fell a few days after this film ...
Dopesheet attributes this footage to raids on railway yards at Pyinmana (on the Rangoon-Mandalay line) and a supply base at Taungup.
For other footage of Liberator operations in this theatre, see ABY 29 ...
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Date from dopesheet. Likely that ... date of shooting is up to two weeks earlier, as by 21 March 1945 Mandalay was considered sufficiently secure for Lieutenant-General ...
In Mandalay, Burma's second city, the stronghold ... on the wall of the fort with Mandalay Hill rising in the background. Smouldering ... them. Troops passing jeeps. From Mandalay Hill; aircraft attacking the walls ...
Operations for the capture of ...
Mandalay, Burma, has been left devastated by the bombing and ... of the British forces attacking the Japanese.
General views of Mandalay taken from the roof of Mealem School. Most of ...
Footage of the bombardment of Fort Dufferin in Mandalay, Burma, as seen from Mandalay Hil.
... . Thunderbolt attacking with time-delay bombs. An aircraft passes Mandalay Hill at approximately the same level as the ...
I. "The road to Mandalay." Report that the Fourteenth Army is beating back the Japanese is accompanied by film illustrating the difficult conditions under which this campaign is being fought: soldiers ford a shallow stream and continue on through a ...
II. "Fourteenth Army's triumph." Sherman tanks enter Mandalay, as Burmese peasants move along the road on bullock-drawn carts. Three Burmese men show the traces of the torture ...
I. "Mandalay Falls." No actual film of the entry of troops into Mandalay, but coverage of a village on the outskirts being pounded by artillery, view of General Rees at a forward position and film of Indian and British troops moving forward along a ...