At MacArthur Camp Lord and Lady Mountbatten talk with officers. Mountbatten inspects a guard of honour. He speaks with an Indian POW. He meets a number of officers and men. He ...
Two days of continuous rain reduce the roads to a sea of mud, making driving conditions challenging, around Tagaung and Minong, Burma.
Dodge 4x4 ...
Views of a troopship convoy to Singapore, views of the city, and Allied prisoners liberated from Changi prison camp.
Views from a troopship ...
RAF Repair Units clear bomb debris from Rangoon, Burma, while transport aircraft fly despite atrocious monsoon weather.
Bomb damage at Rangoon ...
Reel 1: Views from the Penang Hill Railway. The carriage passes a signboard with a (long) list of rules for a local swimming pool in English and Japanese. The carriage enters a ...
Reel 1:Air Marshal Coryton, Air Commodore the Earl of Bandon and Group Captain David seen talking on beach airstrip on the Mayu Peninsula. RAF Stinson L-5 Sentinel light ...
Reel 1: At Maymyo (Pyin U Lwin) a quantity of captured Japanese biscuits are distributed to refugees. Shots of biscuits being distributed and of children eating them. A man uses a ...
RAF Republic Thunderbolt Mk II fighter-bombers are seen operating from an airstrip at Meiktila, central Burma.
Thunderbolt Mk II AW:H (RAF 42 ...
Admirals Harcourt and Fraser, General Festing and Brigadier Hardy, make a tour of inspection of the Hong Kong New Territories, including a trip to an ...
Film documenting the training of the Kuantan Police force, 'after three and a half years of enforced idleness under the Japanese' by two British ...
After crossing the Irrawaddy River, Burma, troops of the 33rd Indian Brigade, 7th Indian Division consolidate the bridgehead as a base for future ...
Sherman medium tanks of 5th (Probyn's) Horse, 255th Indian Tank Brigade being carried on rafts across the Irrawaddy River, Burma at Nyaungu.
Tanks ...
START 10:00:00 A Royal East African Automobile association roadsign at Nankura 110 miles west of Nairobi giving directions and distances in miles to places near and far - Nairobi, Mombasa, Salisbury (now Harare), Johannesburg, Cape Town one way and ...
Offcuts from amateur film by Colonel Hodgkinson in Burma. Most of the scenes are reconstructions (with the exception of the market scene).
"The Enemy" written in English ...
Shipping in anchorage at Trincomalee taken from a motor launch and an aeroplane.
Opening sequence shot from launch in main anchorage - HMS London is present, fitted with a ...
HMS Roebuck anchors on the Thanzit River (Burma) to disembark troops of 4th Indian Infantry Brigade into LCIs (Landing Craft Infantry).
British ...
Film showing troops of 2nd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment off duty in Surabaya (Sourabaya/Soerabaja) and a visit by General Sir Philip Christison, Allied ...
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START 10:00:00 A delegation of tribal elders dressed in long white robes and wearing turbans (suggesting that they are African Moslem tribesmen) are seated in a semi-circle underneath a tree in the grounds of an educational establishment (?) ...
A Douglas C-54 Skymaster aircraft of the United States Army Air Force arrives at Kallang Airport, Singapore, to evacuate American internees.
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I. The two American battleships approach the harbour. USS California (44) enters first through gap in the seaward defences - a boom defence vessel stand by to close the gap after the passage of the two ships. ...
As 14th Army crosses a river in Burma, ...
Film demonstrating the use of a floating dock on the Rangoon river, Burma.
At Rangoon docks a wide shot shows a merchant ship berthed alongside a ...
