... of peasant agriculture and Buddhist temple bells near Mandalay, Burma.

Burmese peasant farmers thresh grain using ... .['] [This something of a misquote of Kipling's 1892 poem 'Mandalay'].

Dopesheet refers to separately recorded sound of temple ...

... -General Sir William Slim, commander of 14th Army, is honoured with performances of traditional Burmese entertainments at Monywa, northwest of Mandalay, Burma.

A car arrives. Lieutenant-General Slim gets out and is saluted. A second car pulls up and ...

... attack and supply operations in and around Mandalay, Burma.

Aerial footage; the camera aircraft ... which starts to peel left. View over Mandalay; the camera aircraft rolls left ... and exiting the target area towards Mandalay Hill at tree-top height. View ...

... 'March on Delhi' offensive of 1944 to the Allies' recapture of Mandalay and Rangoon in May 1945.

The visual material is ... troops; the advance South over the Chindwin and Irrawaddy to Mandalay and Rangoon. "3 Japanese armies, the largest Japanese land ...

... 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 ...

... in Burma, New Guinea. (Reel 3) Further Pacific conflict, British Fourteenth Army, Chinese airlifts. Japan in retreat. Fall of Mandalay. Borneo. Allies close in; atomic bomb. August 1945: surrender.

Notes

Summary: one of the series "made in ...

... ", and gives a comparatively detailed account of subsequent military events, including the Battle of Imphal-Kohima and Slim's drive on Mandalay, Arakan landings, the northern offensive of the Americans and Chinese under Stilwell, and the roles played by ...

... . 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 ...

... wagons past camera.

Notes

The dopesheet provides the following background information: 'In preparation for the push south from Mandalay and Meiktila rolling stock is being recovered at Alon near Monywa by a railway operating company of the ...

... the Japanese strong points.

Notes

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 ...

... header'>The Japanese Army constructed a road through the Arakan, Burma, from the An Valley to Taungup and Prome (Pyay), south of Mandalay; after the road was cut off by XV Indian Corps Japanese defences were inspected and the road used for British Army ...

... header'>The Japanese Army constructed a road through the Arakan, Burma, from the An Valley to Taungup and Prome (Pyay), south of Mandalay; after the road was cut off by XV Indian Corps Japanese defences were inspected and the road used for British Army ...