START 10:22:59 Filmed from the first floor balcony of Government House in Nairobi, senior European and African Anglican clergy led by Bishop Stuart (?) of Nairobi conduct an open-air Service of Thanksgiving to mark V-J Day on or near 15 August 1945, ...
START 10:00:00 An African motorcycle despatch rider (DR) motors past the camera during manoeuvres in Kenya or Madagascar. Wearing steel helmets, African soldiers serving with the King's African Rifles (KAR) make their way through dried-up bushes with ...
START 10:18:40 Scenes shot in the commercial district of Nairobi (a continuation of Nairobi street scenes in AYY 1163) where most properties are no higher than two storeys and the pavements are covered with awnings to shelter shoppers from the sun: ...
The Royal Australian Air Force in action in the Pacific.
The film concentrates on a squadron of Kittyhawks acting principally in a ground support role during the 'island hopping' campaigns, but the commentary ...
A record of the Australian Army's Second World War battle honours, compiled shortly before the end of the war.
(Reel 1) Brief sequences establish the character of Australia (youth etc) and the Axis 'plan for world ...
An interim report on the progress of the Fourteenth Army offensive in Burma.
Description of the logistic problems of the Burmese campaign, caused by mountainous jungle, the Chindwin river and heavy monsoon rainfall. ...
An account of the methods with which the Soviet Union received supplies during the Second World War, and the importance of the continuance of such trade after the hostilities have ended.
For four years the convoys ...
Incomplete version (the beginning is missing) of a film about the return home of Fijian soldiers who took part in the Pacific War.
Scenes of peacetime Fijian life cut with record of the Fijian soldiers advancing on ...
A view of Ceylon towards the end of the war, looking back over the period of defensive war, and to current preparations for the offensive.
General material on Ceylon's religions and economy (tea, rubber, rice) is ...
Film showing the importance and prestige of belonging to the famous Gurkha Regiment.
The film shows His Majesty the King paying tribute to the Gurkhas, and in India the Viceroy paying a similar tribute for their ...
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.
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Army Instructional film in the form of a rhyming monologue recited by Stanley Holloway. Sam likes to drink water but when he joins the Army and is posted to Burma his guardian angel, in the form of a parrot, has to remind him to take proper ...
British actress Patricia Burke, serving with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA), entertains airmen of an RAF Thunderbolt squadron ...
Alligator amphibians of a Royal Indian Army Service Corps General Purpose Transport (GPT) company navigate through narrow waterways near Kangaw, in ...
In northern Burma, troops of 2nd Battalion The Buffs cross the Shweli River before the assault on Myitson, with machine gun, mortar and artillery fire ...
British troops, probably of 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers, take up positions at Kabo Weir on the Mu River in Burma and mount a patrol.
Men ...
At Katha, on the River Irrawaddy in northern Burma, American signalmen lay a telephone line across the river.
Views of the linesmen at work on a ...
FIlm, probably from Akyab Island in the Arakan coastal region of Burma, showing an inspection by senior officers of bomb damage to buildings.
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Views of bomb-damaged buildings on Akyab Island, in the Arakan coastal region of Burma, with British troops coming ashore.
Two shots of a large ...
Open ground with troops on the move. Team of men hauls a wheeled trolley up the beach. Troops walking through tall grass. Signals post. Troops advancing in single file. Troops ...
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 ...
As Fourteenth Army advance across the Shwebo Plain in Burma, intelligence officers and members of the Burma Intelligence Corps question local villagers ...
5.5-inch Medium Guns of 1st Medium Regiment go into action at Nyaungbintha in Burma, during operations on the Shwebo Plain.
Lorry-towed 5.5-inch ...
At the village of Zigon, four miles west of Shwebo in central Burma, British troops storm a bridge with the support of tanks and artillery.
Lee ...
As British troops of 2nd Division advance across the Shwebo plain they pass through the devastated village of Taze, a man wounded near Myingatha is ...
Royal Army Service Corps DUKW amphibious trucks are used to move men and supplies on the river Chindwin in Burma.
Onboard DUKW amphibian (Duck) on ...
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 ...
Views from a DUKW ('Duck') amphibian on the River Chindwin in Burma.
View of a DUKW amphibian on the River Chindwin. Views of the river. Steering ...
Aerial views showing DUKW amphibious trucks on the River Chindwin in Burma.
Aerial views over the Chindwin; various meanders and sandbars. View of ...
Views of DUKW amphibious trucks on the River Chindwin in Burma.
DUKWs on river and manouevring. In one shot a light aircraft can be seen.
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Troops of 3 Commando Brigade assault the Myebon peninsula in the Arakan coastal region of Burma, with the support of tanks, aircraft and naval gunfire ...
During operations at the Myebon peninsula, in the Arakan region of Burma, an Indian Navy sloop is ammunitioned and British troops of 3 Commando Brigade ...
On a beach at Myebon, in the Arakan region of Burma, a grounded Landing Craft Tank is used to provide a steady firing platform for a battery of 25- ...
76 Main Dressing Station, part of 25th Indian Division, sets up on Easy Beach on the Myebon Peninsula, in the Arakan coastal region of Burma, and ...
Reel 1: At sea on a landing craft; views towards Myebon. Commandos on board landing craft; other landing craft heading ashore. Landing craft with Indian Navy sloop. Other vessels ...
At Ramree island, on the Arakan coast of Burma, troops of 26th Indian Division make an amphibious landing.
Looking down on landing craft alongside ...
At Ramree island, on the Arakan coast of Burma, troops of 26th Indian Division make an amphibious landing.
Royal Air Force and Royal Artillery ...
As 14th Army advances across the Shwebo plain in Burma, British troops of 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment (32nd Indian Infantry Brigade, 20th ...
Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore, Governor of Ceylon, visits Kandy in central Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
Wide and high shot with a group of Boy Scouts on ...
Following amphibious landings on Ramree Island, British troops arrive at a hillside temple at Tabai Ridge, and Indian Engineers construct a diversion to ...
At Thitseingyi on the River Irrawaddy in Burma, British troops fire mortars in support of a patrol, and others keep watch over the river.
Man ...
One mile from Ondaw, Burma, British sappers of the Royal Engineers clear mines and bulldoze a diversion near a demolished bridge.
Close-up of the ...
At a Field Ambulance unit near Pauktabin in central Burma, British troops of 36th Division receive typhoid inoculations.
A syringe is taken out of ...
Near Pauktabin in central Burma, 25-pounder field guns fire a barrage.
Various angles of a 25-pounder gun being fired. The battery position is in ...
In northern Burma, American aircraft attack Japanese positions near Konkha and Major-General Festing visits the front line.
American P-47 ...
As 36th Division approaches Mongmit, in northern Burma, troops of 9th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment advance on the village of Mahlainggon, on the ...
In northern Burma, a joint patrol of Royal Scots Fusiliers and Royal Engineers of 36th Division sets out to demolish Japanese bunkers.
Sapper ...
As troops of 2nd Division advance towards Ywathitgyi on the River Irrawaddy in Burma, field and medium artillery provide support, along with heavy ...
