Reel 1: Hawker Hurricanes airborne and taxiing at beach airstrip 'Hove' on the Arakan coast. Men undressing behind Hurricane (later shot from reverse angle). Hurricane being ...
The story of a patrol of eight Australian soldiers in New Guinea and their attack on a Japanese stronghold.
START 10:00:09 The film's opening titles over which it introduces all eight members of an Australian infantry section - Private A N McGregor, Lance-Corporal A C Pierson, Privates F C Northcott, A B Graffin, M J Driver, Corporal R A Box and ...
RAF aircrew are trained and tested in techniques of jungle survival at a jungle school at RAF Mahabaleshwar, in the Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India ...
At an Indian General Hospital in Rome, ...
START 10:07:51 An African hand holds the official programme for '"An East African Dreams": A Military Pageant' held on 25th and 26th February 1944 (the patrons for this event are Kenya's governor, Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore, and General Sir William ...
Part 1: Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese, commander 8th Army, ...
Consolidated Liberator heavy bombers of RAF 355 Squadron attack Japanese targets near Natkyigon, Burma
Operating from Salbani airfield, in ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Montagu Stopford, commander of XXXIII Corps, is entertained by the people of Tamu, Burma, following their liberation by Allied ...
Reel 1: A carpenter at work among palm trees. An armourer carries a Browning machine gun. Close-up of carpenter. Close-up of armourer. An airman works on a wooden oar. Close-up ...
During a lull in fighting in the Maungdaw area of Arakan, Burma, British troops of 25th Indian Division demonstrate how they deal with monsoon ...
Scenes showing RAF Douglas Dakota aircraft being loaded and refuelled prior to supply operations from Chandina, India.
Dakota aircraft being ...
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 ...
Scenes show preparation of aircraft for flight, shots of crew and departure with Mr Perring and Mr G W H Gardner among those seeing crew off. Take-off of aircraft and escort by Spitfire. Stops along the route are ...
5 Aug. 1944. From outside the Palace in Valletta, Lord Gort is driven slowly through the main street accompanied by the Band Clubs and an enthusiastic crowd.
6 Aug. 1944. Lord Gort pauses at the ...
Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits the Kohima and Imphal fronts, India.
Mountbatten arrives at ...
Lord Munster, Under-Secretary of State for India makes a tour of welfare inspection of British troops in India.
Lord Munster seen arriving by ...
At the cantonment in Delhi, Archibald ...
Private Valentino Owori of the East African Pioneer Corps receives the British Empire Medal from Lieutenant General R.G.W.H. Stone, Commander of the British Forces in Egypt ...
START 10:49:13 Views filmed in Diego Suarez, a large naval anchorage on the northern tip of Madagascar, showing a plinth on which there is a copper plate dedicated to Marshal Joffre (1852-1931), Hero of the Battle of the Marne in September 1914 and ...
START 00:00:00 Title 'Malta Convoy' and brief production credits.
00:00:24 A view of the Grand Harbour and part of the Valletta fortifications in the foreground. Dive-bombing attacks by Axis Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bombers on one of the ...
2 Feb. 1944. Dockyard sequence. Damaged sheds and docks. Men clear away rubble. A Maltese welder working inside a blitzed shop. Landing craft being repaired in a dry dock. Workmen riveting. Workers at ...
13 Oct 1944. Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Schrieber disembarks from the launch at Mjarr in Gozo and is met by the Commissioner Mr Montanarro. They drive away. They walk from the cathedral to the courts. ...
Survey of the British Empire in 1944 and the future problems with which it is likely to be faced.
Opening Titles. 'No 1 Tenth Year. The March of Time', 'In this issue. British Imperialism'. Film opens with footage of British and US troops; ...
Infantry of the Assam Rifles seen preparing various traps during jungle warfare training at Sadiya, Assam, India.
Wide shot; two soldiers walk ...
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, ...
Edited footage showing joint American and British military police activities in Calcutta, India.
City scene showing a stationary tram and a herd ...
START 10:16:40 A view of a conical hill or kopje overlooking Lake Naivasha in Kenya's Rift Valley and shots showing two Royal Navy officers, assisted by an African guide, scaling the peak and the panorama from this vantage point overlooking the south ...
Muddy frontline conditions are emphasised through shots of airmen wading through waterlogged airfield perimeter trenches, and later pushing a ...
At a Royal Air Force airstrip in the ...
At an airfield in India Lord Louis ...
Lord Louis ...
Lord Louis ...
Reel 1, part 1, shot by Captain Schopp: Shot ...
Lord Louis ...
Seen in footage by ...
In Colombo Harbour, ...
Brief film showing vehicles of 5th Indian Division struggling in muddy conditions on the Tiddim Road, Burma.
Vehicles negotiating muddy conditions ...
At a Remount Depot and Veterinary Hospital, mules are treated and trained ready for service on the Burma front.
A line of mules; each is held by ...
India' s most popular instruments.
Title card: 'Musical Instruments of India' over picture of instruments. Rolling script: 'Part of the great heritage of India is the rich variety of her musical instruments. There are more than 500 different ...
In the north east of India, a group of visitors from Bhutan. Tiger hunt. Temple in Hyderabad.
Naga refugees shown tending a church garden and graveyard (including British graves), and rebuilding their shattered village of Ukhrul in Manipur, ...
START 10:26:00 Views of the jetty at the Headquarters of East African Naval Force (EANF) at Kilindini, Mombasa, as a small motor Royal Navy launch is seen arriving and departing; a Royal Navy armed trawler is partly visible two hundred yards or so ...
In northern Burma, ...
Reconstructed ...
Part 1, shot on 2 January 1944: Various shots of a snake charmer, ...
At Pinwe in northern Burma, British gunners of 36th Division (probably 178th Field Regiment Royal Artillery) dig an emplacement for a 25-pounder field ...
