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25th Indian Division prepares to make ...

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Troops of 25th Indian Division make an ...

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At Kanbalu, on the railway line to ...

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After the fall of the city of Shwebo in ...

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At Yadaw, twenty miles east of Shwebo, ...

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Indian gunners, possibly of 4th Indian ...

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As 32nd Indian Infantry Brigade, of ...

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The 47 bakers of 1029 Indian Field ...

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As 14th Army crosses a river in Burma, ...

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After the occupation of Ramree Island, ...

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As fierce fighting continues at Kangaw, ...

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I. "The road to Mandalay." Report that the Fourteenth Army is beating back the Japanese is accompanied by film illustrating the difficult conditions under which this campaign is being fought: soldiers ford a shallow stream and continue on through a ...

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I. "Lady Louis inspects Indian hospitals." Lady Mountbatten visits a ward speaking to injured soldiers who are bedridden. Others practice "what is called occupational therapy" (sewing), a new idea. The purpose of Lady Mountbatten's visit is said to ...

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I. "Collapse of the Bridge." Engineers repair the Remagen Bridge over the Rhine shortly before its collapse. Film taken immediately after the collapse shows rescue operations under way, including a stretcher casualty being lifted from the buckled ...

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I. "Mandalay Falls." No actual film of the entry of troops into Mandalay, but coverage of a village on the outskirts being pounded by artillery, view of General Rees at a forward position and film of Indian and British troops moving forward along a ...

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I. "Italy. The Last Offensive." Mahratta troops from Central India move up before the 8th Army attack on the Senio River. Crocodile flame-throwers clear a path through an orchard.

II. "In the Wake of the Hun." Eisenhower visits the ...

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I. "Victory." As Big Ben strikes three o'clock, Churchill broadcasts a statement from his office: "Yesterday morning General Jodl and Admiral Doenitz signed the act of unconditional surrender... Hostilities will end at one minute past midnight on ...

I. "The other man's job. Stormboats for war in Pacific." Scenes of the manufacture of stormboats, flat-bottomed craft specially designed for landing small groups of men and equipment on beaches in the Pacific. Ash logs arrive at a sawmill where they ...

I. "The other man's job. Filling ten ton Tess." Workers pack solid and liquid explosive into a 22,000 lb bomb then inscribe facetious remarks ("Tickler for Hitler," "One for Adolf") on the casing before it leaves the factory by truck. Film of large ...

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I. "The other man's job. Gears for everything." Production of gears, showing casting and testing of gear wheels and assembly of gear units.

II. "World War over. Japan surrenders." Japan's bid for world domination was ended by the dropping of ...

I. "The other man's job. It's cooler inside!" Manufacture of compressor units for use in refrigerators, refrigerated containers and air conditioning. Refrigeration kept food fresh and men healthy during the war. Item promises cheaper and better ...

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The construction of a supply route through Burma's jungles and mountains by US troops under General Joseph Stilwell during the Second World War.

American film about the Allied victory in Burma, ...

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I. Berlin: meeting of Allied Control Commission. Arrival (inspection of Guard of Honour etc) of Zhukov, Eisenhower, Koenig and Montgomery; optimistic commentary.

II. Return of art treasures to the Louvre: wartime storage ...

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I. Munich: the famous glockenspiel in the Town Hall tower working again.

II. 'London fetes its heroes'. The RAF flypast (led by Douglas Bader); also film of Trafalgar Square, with V weapons on display; Attlee speaks (' ...

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I. De Gaulle tours French-occupied zone of Germany, visiting Saarbrcken, Mainz etc, viewing remains of Westwall, and returning by launch across Rhine.

II. Report from Japan. a. Nagasaki A-bomb explosion. b. Hiroshima and ...

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I. US aircraft carriers. a. Launching of USS Oriskany. b. Return of USS Ticonderoga to enthusiastic welcome in San Francisco.

II. Bavarian workshop resumes production of wooden toy animals.

III. England: gales and ...

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I. Allies capture Mandalay.Film of air strikes and street fighting; soldiers and locals fraternise; Lord Mountbatten.

II. Film of German surrenders. German surrenders at Caserta, at Lneburg Heath (Montgomery, Friedeburg ...

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I. Southampton: the liner Queen Elizabeth in drydock for complete overhaul.

II. Hamburg: Typhus epidemic precautions, disinfection of suspect houses, research and mass inoculation.

III. Vienna: France v Austria at ...

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