Three senior air officers talking in front of a parked North American Harvard aircraft; one is an Air Marshal (possibly Air Marshal Coryton), another an Air Vice Marshal and the ...
1,403 freed Allied prisoners of war and civilian internees board the RMS Orbita at Rangoon, Burma, for repatriation, and are visited onboard by ...
Former Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Siam (Thailand), board a landing craft to a transport ship for passage to Calcutta ...
In the Arakan coastal region of Burma, men board landing craft at Kyaukpyu beach on Ramree Island for amphibious landings at Pyin-Wan.
At a bend ...
RAF 132 Squadron and 7155 Servicing Echelon arrive in Hong Kong onboard the Ruler-class escort carrier HMS Smiter.
Members of RAF 132 Squadron ...
Scenes of Bristol Beaufighter Mk X's of RAF 27 Squadron operating from Chiringa airfield, India.
View of runway with Bristol Beaufighters ...
Supplies are packed for parachute drops from RAF transport aircraft, with aerial footage of Rangoon, Burma.
Aerial footage showing passing ...
RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft fly liberated Allied prisoners of war (POWs) to Rangoon, Burma, from Don Muang airfield near Bangkok, capital ...
Reel 1: An RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft, KN459 'V', in flight. Landing at Don Muang airfield near Bangkok. The crew disemplane. Allied prisoners of war (POWs) awaiting ...
More footage relating to an Gang Show organised by an RAF Welfare Unit on Akyab Island (Sittwe), Burma.
Chevrolet lorry passing camera with ...
Scenes from an RAF Gang Show performance on Akyab Island (now Sittwe, Burma).
Two Chevrolet 1.5-ton lorries drive past camera with airmen on ...
RAF Consolidated Liberator heavy bombers fly through monsoon weather conditions to strike at strategic targets in Bangkok, capital of Japanese- ...
RAF personnel leave Rangoon, Burma, by ship for leave, postings, and repatriation.
Rangoon harbour; a temporary bridge leads to a pontoon jetty ...
Several British planes carry out dive bombing attacks in the distance and smoke is seen rising from the area.
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Mandalay, Burma's second city, was an objective of ...
Ballot papers are delivered by air to Calcutta, India, for distribution to RAF bases before the 1945 General Election.
Men stand by an RAF ...
Men of the RAF Regiment man gun positions on troopships in the Rangoon River before sailing for Singapore.
RAF Regiment airmen man a 20mm ...
Men of an RAF Regiment Light Anti-Aircraft Squadron make an amphibious landing at Rangoon, Burma.
Group Captain Harold Pleasance, Air Liaison ...
The reopening of the Kowloon-Lo Wu railway line gets off to a decidedly mixed start, and RAF men mix with Chinese soldiers.
View looking along ...
An RAF Repair and Salvage Unit recovers a crashed Hawker Hurricane fighter-bomber near Sagaing, Burma.
A jeep and a lorry drive along a road ...
Air Marshal Coryton, Air Officer Commanding RAF Third Tactical Air Force and US General Stratemeyer, head of Eastern Air Command, visit British and ...
At the villages of Manong and Bekor near Kuala Kangsar in Perak, Malaya, troops of 25th Indian Division round up suspected bandits.
Dark shot ...
In order to get the railways of Burma in working condition a company of Indian Engineers salvages rolling stock damaged by the retreating Japanese and ...
Lieutenant-General W J Slim leads a flag unfurling ceremony at inside Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma, after British troops forced the Japanese out of ...
An experimental Type B Ramp Cargo Lighter (RCL) is assembled and launched, with some difficulty, on the River Yu at Ya-Nan, Burma.
An RCL on props ...
Scenes of airfield preparation, fighter and RAF Regiment operations and airfield life on Ramree Island, Burma.
Panning shots of airstrip. Local ...
Following amphibious landings on Ramree Island, British troops arrive at a hillside temple at Tabai Ridge, and Indian Engineers construct a diversion to ...
A Burmese man weightlifting. A shot of Shwedagon temple. Frank Worth (a friend of Colonel Hodgkinson in the Royal Indian Navy) walks amongst pigeons in the grounds of the temple. Logging on the river, men ...
Motorcyclists, mostly despatch riders of 12th Army Signals, compete in a cross-country motorcycle trial at Mingaladon, near Rangoon, Burma.
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In Burma 17th Indian Division advances south along the Rangoon road from Meiktila, tanks and infantry clear the defended village of Pyinbongyi near ...
As 17th Indian Division advances south through Burma along the Rangoon road from Meiktila, armoured and motor vehicles ford the Baingda river near ...
Scenes from 5th Indian Division's drive along the Rangoon road between Pyinmana and Toungoo, Burma, including Indian wounded, Japanese dead, destroyed ...
Japanese General Heitaro Kimura and senior staff officers surrender their swords at the headquarters of Twelfth Army at Judson College in Rangoon, Burma ...
In Rangoon, capital of Burma, Indian other ranks (IORs) of 60 Indian Workshop Company of the Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (IEME) assemble ...
In Rangoon, capital of Burma, Indian other ranks (IORs) of 60 Indian Workshop Company of the Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (IEME) assemble ...
Rear Admiral C H J Harcourt, Senior British Naval Officer Hong Kong, inspects airmen and aircraft of RAF 132 Squadron at Kai Tak airfield, Kowloon, ...
With the British reoccupation of Rangoon, capital of Burma, troops of the Civil Affairs Service (Burma) (CAS(B)), work to rebuild and rehabilitate the city.
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Airmen enjoy some time on leave in Bombay (Mumbai), India, while awaiting embarkation for return to the United Kingdom
Indian countryside seen ...
Opening shot of board bearing the legend HMIS "SITA", RIN HOLDING DEPOT and attended by two sentries. View across sun-baked lawn to an elegant colonnaded building. Vehicle pound contains 8 cwt 4x4 CMP ...
As British troops of 36th Division advance south through northern Burma and occupy Mahlainggon, civilian refugees evacuate on foot and by bullock cart ...
Harbour of Akyab Island, Burma, with Merchant Marine ships anchored offshore and the unloading of supplies to landing craft.
Landing craft sail ...
Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and civilian internees are liberated from Japanese captivity and evacuated by RAF aircraft to Kallang Airport, ...
Former Allied prisoners of war (POWs), recently released from Japanese captivity, arrive in Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) en route to the UK.
Troops ...
Recently liberated Allied prisoners of war and internees are shown around the Royal Navy London Class heavy cruiser HMS Sussex, and seen in hospital ...
Internees climbing a gangway to board HMS Sussex. Reverse angle showing same. Civilian ex-internees (on the flag deck?) with a Royal Navy signaller. Internees looking at a six- ...
Part 1a: Chinthes at pagoda entrance. Pan from pagoda to open green with buildings beyond. Monumental chinthes with British troops at their base; they are dwarfed by it. Tilt down ...
REEL 1- KASHMIR NO 1 - EARLY SPRING. Srinagar:- 1st Bridge, Hotel Road, Nedou's Hotel, Golf Course at back of hotel, houseboats Chenar Bagh (garden). English church vicarage and garden. Almond, cherry, pear and peach blossom. Magnolia, forsythia. Up ...
With the Allied reoccupation Japanese troops are used to remove stores of Japanese 'banana' money from banks in Singapore.
A sign on a building ...
Following the Japanese surrender, Indian troops of 5th Indian Division return to Singapore by sea, and the Japanese garrison decamp to concentration areas in Johore.
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