... Division) stand and chat after the ceremony.

Notes

Mandalay, Burma's second city, was an objective of great ... a large Japanese supply dump.

Operations for the capture of Mandalay were extensively covered by other British Army cameramen. ...

... howitzer to blast holes in the walls of Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma, at point blank range.

An explosion sends up a ... large Japanese supply dump.

Operations for the capture of Mandalay were extensively covered by other British Army cameramen. ...

... seen is probably 134th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery.

Mandalay, Burma's second city, was an objective of great ... a large Japanese supply dump.

Operations for the capture of Mandalay were extensively covered by other British Army cameramen. ...

... ammunition.

Notes

Despite the dopesheet referring to an impending attack on Mandalay, at the time this film was shot 2nd ... of Central Burma, such as the capture of Meiktila and Mandalay. In particular a deception scheme known as 'Cloak' was ...

... mythical lion-like guardian. Walking up the covered southern steps of Mandalay Hill (AKA Pagoda Hill or Monastery Hill). Mountbatten ... of the fort and city.

Notes

Mountbatten's visits to Mandalay were also covered by British Army cameramen. See ...

... , troops of the 6th Rajputana Rifles advance south towards Mandalay, Burmas second city.

.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, ...

... the final bombing runs on the north wall of Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma and enter the fort after the Japanese have left.

Officers and men gather on a covered stairway on Mandalay Hill. Two groups of three planes appear as tiny dots ...

... look out over the wall and moat of the fort.

Mandalay railway station is badly damaged and the tracks have been ... Louis Mountbatten visits Fort Dufferin and King Thibaw's Palace, Mandalay, Burma, after British soldiers captured them from the Japanese ...

... WARGB

The final assault on Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma, from the air takes place and British troops of ... bombing run. Two planes swoop past the camera position on Mandalay Hill on a bombing run and more smoke rises from the ...

... in this film are of 98th Indian Infantry Brigade.

Mandalay, Burma's second city, was an objective of great importance ... large Japanese supply dump.

Operations for the capture of Mandalay were extensively covered by other British Army cameramen. ...

... smoke is seen rising from the area.

Notes

Mandalay, Burma's second city, was an objective of great importance ... a large Japanese supply dump.

Operations for the capture of Mandalay were extensively covered by other British Army cameramen. ...

... visits the officers and men who helped capture Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma, from the Japanese and speaks to various units of ... . After addressing a group of men he climbs the covered steps on Mandalay Hill and is briefed on the battle as it progressed by ...

... of Perthville, Bathurst, New South Wales.

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 ...

... back of a jeep while Slim walks round to the passenger's side; Rees and Vincent follow.

After the fall of Mandalay, Burma's second city, Lieutenant-General Sir William Slim (commander 14th Army) leads a ceremonial flagraising in Fort Dufferin.

...

... OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Some of the civilian population of Mandalay, Burma, are treated for malnutrition, disease and shrapnel and bullet wounds in a temporary hospital.

The hospital ...

... THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Film showing various activities of the Civil Affairs Service (Burma) in Mandalay, including collecting weapons, issuing rations and pensions, distributing captured Japanese supplies and declaring price ...

... IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Lord Mountbatten visits a forward airstrip near Mandalay, with scenes of Hawker Hurricane operations and the RAF Regiment.

Hawker Hurricane AW:Z of RAF 42 Squadron lands ...

... SECOND WORLD WARIndia

The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits Burma's second city, Mandalay, and meets Lieutenant-General Stopford, whose troops captured the city.

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Film not viewed; catalogued from ...

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A record of an expedition from Burma to China. The film includes landscape shots, scenes of agriculture, market and street scenes in Teng Yuch, Chung King, Yenan, and the Kumbun lamasery.

Rl. 1. Animated map of journey. Village life in Burma. ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILMGB

Horses are led passed crowd at racecourse. Lord and Lady Dorman-Smith present silver bowl to Indian racehorse owner ? and British officer. Brief shot of the Dorman-Smiths taking their seats, along with several British ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Air Marshal Coryton, Air Officer Commanding RAF Third Tactical Air Force and US General Stratemeyer, head of Eastern Air Command, visit British and ...

... . The West Africans have thus helped the British drive on Mandalay by containing Japanese forces in Arakan. The 82nd pursues the enemy ... and arduous campaign’ – and notes that when Mandalay fell to ‘British and Indian forces, West Africans ...

... front’, but no fighting is shown. The film concludes by stating that ‘the battles which ended at Rangoon and Mandalay were beginning’, yet ultimately the representation of war, both for the Africans who had fought and for those watching ...