Unedited rushes. Air convoys in Takoradi and Ikeja, Lagos. Unloading Hurricane crates.

Scenes of Burmese civilians receiving medical treatment and air evacuation of British casualties from Mohnyin in northern Burma.

At a dressing ...

Burma, 30 January 1942. American Volunteer Group (AVG), Two Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk fighter aircraft warming up for take-off on a dusty airstrip. Panning shot across airstrip. Tomahawk aircraft taking off. Another Tomahawk aircraft taxiing to take-off, ...

Air Marshal Coryton, Air Officer Commanding Third Tactical Air Force visits RAF 177 Squadron and RAF 211 Squadron equipped with Bristol Beaufighters ...

The new Allied Air Commander-in-Chief of South East Asia Command, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, arrives with his wife at Alipore airfield, near ...

139 Company AMPC (Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps) clearing debris in Bryanston Square and Park Crescent, London W1.

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139 Company under command of Major Hood MC, 2 Montagu Square, ...

Company of Indian members of the AMPC (Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps) (recruited mainly from Lascars at docks and ports) clearing up Sloane Street underground station, London, after air raid. Indian ...

Reel 1: A parked RAF Short Stirling transport aircraft with a white-painted Consolidated Liberator behind it. General view of the airfield at Mauripur. A Liberator lands. ...

Aircraft dropping supplies by parachute and evacuating wounded in support of 7th Indian Division, Fourteenth Army.

Men of Air Supply Company ...

Footage of various Allied transport aircraft taking off after being loaded with weaponry and mules for resupply operations.

Aircraft include ...

Men of 23rd Brigade shown reoccupying the village of Ukhrul in Manipur, India and being resupplied with food and other items by parachute supply ...

Scenes of RAF Liberator heavy bomber operations over Burma.

RAF Consolidated Liberator heavy bombers of RAF 159 Squadron at dispersal with ...

Demonstration of the ability of the R.R.A.F. to attack a target with a number of different levels of ferocity.

6 May. Seventeen Mitchell bombers flying in formation to bomb accompanied by nine Spitfires. A formation of Marauder bombers. Another formation of bombers.

Scots Guards vehicles passing a corner in ...

Air to air training shots filmed from the pilot's perspective at RAF Hornchurch in 1943. Pilot is C.J.S. Howard of 559 Squadron.

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Summary: C.J.S. Howard joined the Royal Air Force in 1941. Brief details of his military service as ...

Patients board a Handley Page Halifax aircraft for repatriation to the UK at Alipore airfield, Calcutta.

An RAF Avro Lancaster, fitted with ...

Brief film showing part of an air-sea rescue exercise with an airborne lifeboat Mk II near Singapore.

Six men onboard a motor launch trying to ...

Aerial shots from one of the Handley Page Hastings transport aircraft participating in the airborne assault on El Gamil.

LA.MS of Hastings transport in level flight right to left (the ...

Reel 1: Pan along a line of Indian Sikh troops cleaning their Ordnance ML 3-inch mortars. A three-man mortar team stands by their weapon, which a captain comes and inspects. ...

Gurkha paratroopers seen gearing up and boarding their aircraft before parachuting into action near Rangoon, Burma, as part of Operation Dracula ...

Documentary scenes showing the process of airfield construction in forward areas.

Various stages in the construction of an airfield, starting ...

The opening of the Kano International Airport in Nigeria, 4th may 1947.

Traditional greetings to visitors. A Comet airplane. Wing Commander Coleman, Director of Civil Aviation, at the official opening ceremony. Inspection of the ...

A coordinated attack takes place on Japanese positions along the Pindale to Mahlaing road north of Meiktila. Burma, involving artillery, North American ...

In northern Burma, American aircraft attack Japanese positions near Konkha and Major-General Festing visits the front line.

American P-47 ...

United States Army Air Force medium bombers attack pockets of Japanese resistance after the capture of Yamethin, Burma.

North American B-25 ...

AMATEUR. Film of local events in Ajmer province including the fair at Pushkar.

Camel race and general views of people and animals (35). Elephants (46). People (53). A food stall (58). Street scene showing stalls and buildings (82). ...

AMATEUR. Local dances from the Daffla region of India and local men performing spectacular tricks on tight-ropes.

Men dancing and acting out a ritualised hunt whilst wearing masks (54). Women dancing (970. Men dancing watched by ...

AKC News Parade film No.323, 13 April 1959; including visit of Prince Philip to Christmas Island; floods in Madagascar; the journey of US nuclear submarine USS Skate to the North Pole, and the scattering of the ashes of the Australian explorer, Sir ...

ACTUALITY. The knighting of the Alake of Abeokuta by the Governor General, Sir John MacPherson, in the presence of the Governor of the Western Region, Sir John Regan.

Edited scenes showing the ceremony on the parade ground, Saint Patrick's Barracks, Ballymena; also includes recruits from St Helena delivering family messages to camera, and a message from ...

Unedited, extended coverage of the ceremony in which members of Alanbrooke Platoon (Royal Irish Regiment) receive their regimental caps. At the end of the tape, three black soldiers record ...

The story of Alec Smith, son of the Rhodesia Prime Minister, as drop-out, former drug smuggler and addict and his role as as army padre and peacemaker in Zimbabwe

A survey of the strategic situation of the British Empire in the Far East in the face of "an outside" threat (obviously Japan).

The film, like the pattern of strength it seeks to portray, is based on Singapore ("one ...

"This C.O.I film is a Crown Film Unit Production of vital interest to all peace-loving peoples today, for the "Alien Orders" are those which Communism is giving to its adherents everywhere who are working for the overthrow of law and order ...

Cadbury production, likely including footage from the Gold Coast (Ghana).

INTEREST. Shots of the sea from the side of "S.S. Narkunda" (31). The bridge of the ship (65). The engine room (120). The bridge (142). Life boat drill (198). Shots of the sea from the side of the ship (212).

Impressionistic account, without commentary, of day-to-day life onboard HMS Coventry as she sails from Portsmouth to Hong Kong via Singapore.

"Monday 19th May PORTSMOUTH" The destroyer HMS Coventry sets off from ...

The arrival of General Sir Edmund Allenby, the new commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, in Cairo, 27 June 1917.

Allenby's train pulls in to the station and he gets down to meet with some civilian ...

Unedited film of General Sir Edmund Allenby's arrival in Cairo following the Armistice with Turkey, November 1918.

The film may be out of time-sequence. It shows General Allenby talking to senior officers (none ...

Undated film of Allenby in Palestine, and scenes of the RAF flying display at Hendon and the cerremony of Trooping the Colour, both in 1929, shot by a British medical officer serving with the Iraq Levies, 1920s-1939.

Mixed film of British, Indian and Jewish forces, including the meeting of General Allenby with Chaim Weizmann in Jerusalem, Palestine Front, May 1918.

(Reel 1) An auction of British Army horses to civilians. A troop ...

Animation, actuality and reconstruction film of the British campaign in Palestine, October 1917 to October 1918.

The film blames the war, and Turkey's involvement in it, completely on Germany. It uses animated maps ...

Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, visits No. 4 Squadron Indian Air Force on Ramree Island off Burma's Arakan coast ...

Lieutenant-General Raymond Wheeler US Army, is invested as an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE), while Lord Louis Mountbatten ...

Lieutenant-General Raymond Wheeler US Army, is invested as an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE), while Admiral Lord Louis ...

Allied prisoners of war, liberated from Japanese captivity, are seen at Kallang airfield, Singapore.

Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de ...

A history of the battles, fought predominantly by Australian troops, to block the Japanese conquest of New Guinea and then to recapture the island.

A general introduction stresses the conventional military defeats ...

Scenes of an Allied victory parade, mounted in monsoon weather in Rangoon, capital of Burma, on 15 June 1945.

Wide shot of a parade ground at ...