... of Perthville, Bathurst, New South Wales.

Dopesheet attributes this footage to raids on railway yards at Pyinmana (on the Rangoon-Mandalay line) and a supply base at Taungup.

For other footage of Liberator operations in this theatre, see ABY 29 ...

... back of a jeep while Slim walks round to the passenger's side; Rees and Vincent follow.

After the fall of Mandalay, Burma's second city, Lieutenant-General Sir William Slim (commander 14th Army) leads a ceremonial flagraising in Fort Dufferin.

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... OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Some of the civilian population of Mandalay, Burma, are treated for malnutrition, disease and shrapnel and bullet wounds in a temporary hospital.

The hospital ...

... THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Film showing various activities of the Civil Affairs Service (Burma) in Mandalay, including collecting weapons, issuing rations and pensions, distributing captured Japanese supplies and declaring price ...

... IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Lord Mountbatten visits a forward airstrip near Mandalay, with scenes of Hawker Hurricane operations and the RAF Regiment.

Hawker Hurricane AW:Z of RAF 42 Squadron lands ...

... SECOND WORLD WARIndia

The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits Burma's second city, Mandalay, and meets Lieutenant-General Stopford, whose troops captured the city.

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A record of an expedition from Burma to China. The film includes landscape shots, scenes of agriculture, market and street scenes in Teng Yuch, Chung King, Yenan, and the Kumbun lamasery.

Rl. 1. Animated map of journey. Village life in Burma. ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILMGB

Horses are led passed crowd at racecourse. Lord and Lady Dorman-Smith present silver bowl to Indian racehorse owner ? and British officer. Brief shot of the Dorman-Smiths taking their seats, along with several British ...

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

Air Marshal Coryton, Air Officer Commanding RAF Third Tactical Air Force and US General Stratemeyer, head of Eastern Air Command, visit British and ...

... . 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 ...

... 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 ...