A further instalment of 'So This Is India' in which Aircraftman 'Paddy' Murray goes by air to a forward airstrip.
A lorry reverses towards a ...
A further instalment of 'So This Is India' in which Aircraftman 'Paddy' Murray goes by air to a forward airstrip.
A lorry reverses towards a ...
Reel 1: Airmen Paddy and Jock sitting in a train compartment. They lean out of a window. Paddy leans from a window to buy bananas from a local girl. Scenic shots of the ...
Further scenes for 'So This Is India' showing the move of RAF 30 Squadron and their Republic Thunderbolt fighters to a forward airfield.
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Short section of footage of a railway locomotive for 'So This Is India'.
A train steams towards camera and passes very close; drivers or ...
Scenes of a Roman Catholic Mass held in a pagoda at Sadaung, Burma.
Pagoda spires. Several takes of an RAF Bristol Beaufighter passing low ...
A survey of the influence of the common people on history told through music and song; the Peasant's Revolt, the Levellers, the Diggers, the Luddites and the Chartists. Includes actuality footage of the dockers march on Tower Hill and Liverpool ...
Spitfires of RAF 132 Squadron operate at Kai Tak airstrip, Kowloon, Hong Kong, and adopt two local Chinese boys.
View of Kai Tak airstrip; the ...
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 ...
Static views of recently-liberated Singapore.
Views across the Straits of Johore. Views of the countryside surrounding Singapore. An Australian ...
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 ...
Scenes from Saigon, capital of French Indo-China (Vietnam), now occupied by 20th Indian Division.
Two British officers are saluted by a Japanese ...
West African troops disembark from the cameraship onto a rubble strewn quayside. Indian dock labourers handle cargo slings from unloading merchantman and transfer crates onto a roller conveyor which runs into a ...
Supplies are dropped from a Dakota to a forward Army division, and local Burmese villagers are employed to collect them, at Twinnge, Northern Burma ...
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 ...
RAF Supermarine Spitfires of RAF 155 Squadron escort Douglas Dakota transport aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force on a supply operation over ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, is seen en route to Singapore with General Slim, commander-in-chief Allied ...
The Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits Mandalay, Burma, with other senior British and American ...
The Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, meets troops of 2nd Division, probably at Sadaung, Burma.
A jeep ...
The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, meets troops of 2nd Division.
A jeep marked with the insignia of 2nd ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command (SEAC), arrives by air in Rangoon, Burma, before visiting liberated British ...
The Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, makes a tour of inspection of Rangoon, the recently liberated capital ...
A section of infantry from 17th Dogra Machine Gun Battalion conduct a patrol of villages in the vicinity of Surabaya (Sourabaya/Soerabaja), Java, ...
HA.LS sequence shot from Government House as the Allied representatives file out onto the lawn for photographs after the Japanese surrender.
(i) HA views into the garden of ...
I. Reel One. Vice-Admiral Ruitako Fujita, Major-General Okada and Mr Nakamura, former Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, pass the camera as they leave Government House after the surrender ceremony. MCU of line of ...