Footage of Christmas festivities being conducted in the field by troops of 36th Division in northern Burma, December 1944.
Close-up of a British ...
Footage of Christmas festivities being conducted in the field by troops of 36th Division in northern Burma, December 1944.
Close-up of a British ...
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. ...
Film apparently taken in northern Burma showing preparations for Christmas in December 1944, by men of 36th Division.
View over a supply dump in ...
Somewhere in the Arakan coastal region ...
I. "Pacific: Japs raid Saipan." (Reel 1) Saipan is a B-29 base in New Guinea. Night scenes of burning B-29s. Daylight firefighting, bulldozer in action. Second attack 12 hours later. Heavy smoke palls.
II. "Pacific: GIs ...
The Commander-in-Chief of the Indian ...
Part 1, shot by Sergeant Marshall: Commandos, wearing full kit, sit and listen to a briefing at a tented camp. Cheerful commandos sitting on the ground. Troops passing camera. ...
Reel 1: Opening shot partially obscured. Series of shots looking ...
Bodh Chandra Singh, Maharaja of Manipur ...
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 ...
Record of a journey to illustrate the life of countries in which allied servicemen are stationed.
Trials with DDT carried out in the Takoradi-Axim area of the Gold Coast, West Africa.
Secondary forest and dense cover and general views of the trials area. Dense forest. ...
Trials with DDT carried out in the Takoradi-Axim area of the Gold Coast, West Africa.
Field equipment loaded onto vehicles. Radio communication equipment. Communication roads ...
Around Christmas 1944, British troops of 36th Division receive a welcome consignment of airmail in northern Burma.
Douglas Dakota transport ...
Airmen of an RAF motor transport waterproofing unit demonstrate techniques for waterproofing vehicles in preparation for amphibious operations ...
Bud Flanagan plays an army private who gets concussion which results in three dreams: 1st - only white man in African district; 2nd - as a jockey at Ascot; 3rd - at Stage Door canteen.
Scenes from the Army Exhibition in Nairobi in September 1944. The film depicts African and European schoolboys inspecting the exhibits, before showing African soldiers – ...
An introduction for soldiers to far east warfare.
The film gives a background summary of the war in the far east up to 1942 and then goes on to describe the extent of the theatre of war, showing the differing sorts ...
In Burma elephants are used to bridge ...
I. "Captured German 88mm gun." US ordnance crew inspect and test 88mm gun; it is resprayed with US markings.
II. "CBI Capture Tengyuch Burma Road Barrier." Capture of Tengyuch. Supplies arrive by parachute, ammunition ...
British soldiers of 77th Brigade, 3rd Indian Division in bush hats board a raft as others on board wait. Two small boats lashed together and full of men use an outboard motor to ...
Demonstrating the use of an RAF de Havilland Tiger Moth biplane to evacuate casualties from improvised landing areas to hospital on the Imphal front, ...
Reel 1: On ground covered by broken trees and with a square two- ...
In northern Burma, ...