Very short film showing an Avro Anson transport aircraft starting up, taxiing, and in flight, somewhere in India.
A ground crewman hand cranks an ...
Very short film showing an Avro Anson transport aircraft starting up, taxiing, and in flight, somewhere in India.
A ground crewman hand cranks an ...
An edited production by the SEAC Film Unit (British) shows how 'SEAC', the newspaper of South East Asia Command, is produced and distributed to troops ...
Men of 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment (of 23rd Long-Range Penetration (LRP) Brigade, part of 3rd Indian Division (also known as 'Special Force' or the Chindits) seen returning to ...
After the abandonment of the Japanese assault on Imphal, British and Indian troops of 5th Indian Division are seen advancing south on the Tiddim Road, ...
Signallers of 36th Division seen laying telephone wires from a Brigade HQ to a forward battalion in the Hopin area of Northern Burma.
A sign reads ...
A line of Burmese labourers queue up to receive their payment of money (1 rupee, about 1 shilling sixpence at contemporary rates), salt, tea, bully beef and biscuits. A British man ...
As tanks and infantry of 5th Indian Division advance towards Tiddim, Burma, Indian Engineers bridge the Beltang Lui river, supplies are dropped by ...
Infantry of the Assam Rifles seen preparing various traps during jungle warfare training at Sadiya, Assam, India.
Wide shot; two soldiers walk ...
A small airstrip is built at the remote village of Saizang, 8 miles south west of Tiddim, Burma, and British and American light aircraft use it to ...
Indian troops of 2nd Battalion 1st Punjab Regiment (123rd Brigade, 5th Indian Division) seen on patrol in the area of the Tiddim-Kalemyo road, Burma, ...
British engineers and infantry of 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers (29th Brigade, 36th Division) seen at work on the airstrip known as White City at ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Montagu Stopford, commander of XXXIII Corps, is entertained by the people of Tamu, Burma, following their liberation by Allied ...
Scenes at an Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers' workshop of 123rd Brigade, 5th Indian Division, and views of bomb damage and terrain on the ...
Film showing the movement of supplies from the port of Chittagong, India (Bangladesh), to Dohazari and onwards by road to the front in the Arakan, Burma ...
Reel 1: Pan across a beachhead on the banks of the River Chindwin showing men, mules and a number of jeeps. Brief shot of men washing and shaving on the riverbank. Mules are led ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia, and American Lieutenant-General Daniel Sultan visit the HQ ...
Scenes of mortar training, a crashed Japanese bomber, mountainous scenery, a wounded Japanese prisoner and captured equipment, and a brigade planning ...
Following the withdrawal of Japanese forces, troops of 29th Brigade (36th Division) occupy the town of Indaw, Burma.
Wrecked and abandoned ...
Men seen leaving US transport aircraft in Burma.
A United States Army Air Force (USAAF) Dakota (C-47 Skytrain) transport with its engines shutting ...
West African Engineers construct a ferry over the Kalapanzin River in the Arakan region of Burma.
African troops of 82nd West African resting in ...
British soldiers of XV Corps celebrate Christmas 1944 on the Teknaf Peninsula on the Indo-Burma border.
A man leaves a tent; he carries a bugle. ...
The men of 5th Infantry Brigade headquarters (2nd Division) enjoy Christmas festivities at Yazagyo, north of Kalemyo in Burma.
A banner reads ' ...
Scenes on the road lines of communication from Dimapur, India, to Kalewa, Burma.
Aerial footage of the road in mountainous terrain between Palel ...
The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits officers and men of 3rd Special Service Brigade on the Teknaf ...