INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

After the occupation of Ramree Island, ...

INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

Film by an American cameraman showing a Fairmile B motor launch beached on the Kaleindaung river, in the Arakan coastal region of Burma.

A motor ...

INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

After six years service in India on internal security duties, troops of the Bhairab Nath battalion of the Nepalese Army return to Kathmandu.

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

The new Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, arrives at Ratmalana airport in Columbo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

The retiring ...

Australia

I. "Victoria: Land Army girls supply much of Melbourne's food." Girls on horseback and picking onions and peaches.

II. "Sydney: 'Rats of Tobruk' commemorate historic siege." Wreaths are laid at the Cenotaph before a flashback recalls the ...

Australia

I. a. HMS Illustrious and King George V in Sydney Harbour are a "renewed reminder of Britain's naval might. Ornamental guncap sovereigns are fitted to the guns of the latter ship. A Hindu Midshipman on board "gives the Empire touch." Close up ...

GB, United States of America

I. "Britain's fastest plane." View of the Gloster Meteor jet on the ground and in flight.

II. "Burma liberated. British take Rangoon!" (News of the Day). Troops come ashore during an amphibious attack; paratroops land; ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

British troops of No. 5 Army Commando round up Japanese troops at Fanling, 20 miles from Kowloon, before putting them on a train to an internment camp ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

At an East African Reinforcement Camp an entertainment unit stages a show for troops of 11th East African Division.

Close-up of poster advertising ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Men of No. 6 Air Formation Signals RAF seen at work laying and repairing telephone lines at Mingaladon airfield in Rangoon, Burma.

An RAF ...

Mountbatten and party, including US Army Lieutenant-General Joseph Stilwell, passes camera. Mountbatten meets British troops. At an airfield British and American officers shake hands. Mountbatten departs by Douglas Dakota transport aircraft (serial ...

Great Britain

A trip by truck from Nairobi into the semi-arid Northern Frontier Districts.

USA

Group of American paratroopers are dropped 180 miles behind Japanese lines. Group splits into two. One group is killed and tortured the other is successful in its mission.

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Shot on 16 September 1945: three Japanese representatives of the Ipoh garrison pass camera. Interior footage; the Japanese officers meet officers of Force 136 (Special Operations ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

British troops of 5th Parachute Brigade round up the Japanese garrison of Singkep Island, off Sumatra south of Singapore, who are transported by sea to ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Offcuts? of amateur film of oilfields in Burma (possibly the Yenangyaung oilfields?).

Brief shot of a British man. Oil wells, some close-ups of the machinery.

Notes ...

GB

START 00:00:00 04:09 Title card 'Trincomalee Harbour. Royalist "Ameer" "Hunter"'. A voyage around the anchorage in the Bay of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), in a motor launch past the light anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Royalist, flagship of the 21st ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

British troops of 4th Indian Infantry Brigade proceed from Kyaukpyu on Ramree Island, Burma up the Thanzit River.

Indian troops sit on the deck of ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Variety of scenes of an advance by 5th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Division, near Mount Popa (approximately 40 miles west of Meiktila, Burma) showing ...

BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

Amphibious landings on the banks of the Rangoon River and advance on the city.

Cameraman in one of a flotilla of LCAs proceeding in line ahead up the Rangoon River - the line ...

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

After nationalist disturbances close the roads to Saigon, capital of French Indo-China, a convoy named 'Operation Saltmeat' is mounted from Phnom Penh ( ...

BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

I. A walk around Diyatalawa camp extension in Ceylon. Scenes include Craighton Village, waterfalls at Nuwara Eliya, Adams Peak and tea plantations. This material is duplicated with some additional scenes under ...

BEAMISH COLLECTIONGB

Home movie shot during the embarkation and landings of Operation Zipper, September, 1945.

This film shows troopships assembling in an unidentified Indian port and Australian and Indian troops ...

BEAMISH COLLECTIONGB

Home movie shot during the landings of 'Operation Zipper' and in Malaya, September 1945, repeating much of the coverage of the first reel.

This reel begins on board the troopship having left one of ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Troops of 25th Indian Division make an amphibious landing on the coast of Malaya at Morib as part of Operation Zipper.

Troops making their way ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

With the surrender of Japan, troops of 23rd Indian Division mount an amphibious landing near Port Dickson on the Malayan coast, as part of Operation ...

GB

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

British tanks and troops move forward to capture a Japanese position just north of Mandalay, Burma.

19th Indian Division take a Japanese ...

GB

Examination of Japan's rle as aggressor in the Second World War.

Japanese culture and duality ("restraint at home, excess in battle" etc). Pre-war Japanese imperialism: Formosa, Port Arthur, Korea. (Reel 2) Japan ...

Amateur film. Col. and Mrs. Lord's garden at Jhelum, 1940; arrival of 2nd Battalion Baluch Regiment, Karachi, September 1945; Lord's home, military lines 1940-3; Karachi - house, garden, servants.

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

After the liberation of Rangoon, British troops of 36th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, go sightseeing and visit the ancient Shwedagon ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

The beach at Kyaukpyu on the northern tip of Ramree Island, Burma, is used as a repair base for several types of landing craft to be used in future ...

GB

Largely based on the use of maps, the film is a brief statement of the war situation in the Far East, explaining the particular problems of fighting in the Pacific and strategic concepts designed to solve them.

...

India

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

British actress Patricia Burka, serving with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA), entertains airmen at Sadaung, Burma.

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

British actress Patricia Burke, serving with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA), entertains airmen of an RAF Thunderbolt squadron ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Stage and film star Patricia Burke gives an impromptu show to British troops while she is the guest of XV Indian Corps on Akyab Island in the Arakan ...

GB

An impression of London's West End in wartime.

A soldier in a Far East posting explains to his mate the special significance of Piccadilly to a Londoner. The film cuts to the Underground and people making their way ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Amateur film of the birds and wildlife at the Pidaung Wildlife Sanctuary, Myitkyina, Kachin State, Burma.

A sign for Pidaung railway station (in Roman and Burmese script). ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Film showing a number of slogans, posters and graffiti during rising political unrest in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (Jakarta, Indonesia).

A large ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Footage depicting the unsettled political climate in Bandoeng (Bandung) in central Java, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia).

Slow pan left-to-right ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Footage of preparations for an amphibious assault, by British troops of 3 Commando Brigade and by Indian Army tanks of the 19th Lancers, against the ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

The army use deceptive tactics in order to mislead the Japanese in preparation for the crossing of the River Irrawaddy before the assault on the city of ...

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

25th Indian Division prepares to make ...

INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

On a beach up the Zani Chaung in the Arakan coastal region of Burma, landing craft unload stores and a captured Japanese tank is put aboard a landing ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

A few miles from Kyaukpyu on Ramree Island, Burma, the men of 123rd Mechanical Equipment Corps and 702nd Mechanical Equipment Corps level a large area ...

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

Air Commodore the Earl of Bandon presents a captured Japanese sword to the commanding officer of RAF 135 Squadron.

Air Officer Commanding RAF ...