Reel 1: British troops in wooded terrain; they wear the divisional patch of 36th Division. An officer looks at a map. Two men in position, one of them lying prone. Close-up profile ...
Reel 1: Various angles of a 25-pounder field gun being fired. British troops of 10th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment moving through jungle. Down a track. Wounded man on a ...
Following the withdrawal of Japanese forces, troops of 29th Brigade (36th Division) occupy the town of Indaw, Burma.
Wrecked and abandoned ...
START 10:39:12 An armed African sentry stands guard at the steel cantilever road and railway bridge spanning the River Nile shortly after it leaves Lake Victoria at Jinja in Uganda, eighty kilometres east of Kampala. An official notice sternly ...
Carrier strike on Emmahaven and Indaroeng, Padang in South-West Sumatra.
HA.MS aft along the deck of HMS Indomitable to a running range of Barracudas - camera pans to follow ...
Close bombardment of Sabang by Dutch cruiser Tromp and RN and RAN destroyers. Cameraship was HMS Quality (?)
LS of battle fleet on the horizon - Illustrious Class carrier and ...
Strike against Car Nicobar Island on 17 October, 1944.
MS from focsle deck to X turret of cameraship HMS Renown - men sit on mushroom top ventilators in the foreground - a fuel ...
A Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF ...
Operation Transom, Anglo-American carrier air strike on Wonokromo oil refinery and the harbour of Sourabaya in Java, 17 May, 1944
Opening sequence showing HMS Illustrious and ...
Shirtless men queue for their dinner in the open air; their tents can be seen in the background. A mug is used to ladle tea into another mug. A piece of bread is placed on a tin ...
Tanks, troops, and artillery of XXXIII Indian Corps move up as part of operations towards Shwebo in Burma.
Parachute supply bundles descending ...
Reel 1, shot by Taylor and Hewit: 10:28:59 Indian Engineers at work ...
Official production highlights the war effort of Southern Rhodesia during the Second World War.
The film opens with a montage of images detailing the aggression of Hitler's Germany and the outbreak of war "the lights ...
Men of the Air Supply Company, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, packing a variety of material ready for delivery by parachute to troops in the field ...
Mute Newsreel dealing mainly with the fighting on Palau.
Marines wade ashore from LCAs. LS of the invasion fleet. Graphics indicate the location of Palau Island. LS of the effect of the naval bombardment - a smoke ...
I "The War in the South Pacific"
I General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz stand together beside map. American forces engage in jungle-fighting on Bougainville against Japanese Nippon Division, responsible for Nanking ...
I. "Attack on Hollandia."
"Attack on Hollandia" American B-24 Liberators bomb Japanese positions on northern coast of Dutch New Guinea. General MacArthur at sea observes, with ears plugged, the naval bombardment ...
CINEMAGAZINE. Stories include: women war workers; India: pigeon post; the Muslim New year; jet propulsion explained
Part 1: A man lying on his back in hospital bed raises his right ...
Scenes in an African guides camp.
A travelogue of Palestine.
Includes scenes in Haifa, the Sea of Galilee, Tiberius, Capernium, Jericho, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and the daily lives of the local fishermen, shepherds and townspeople.
Reel 1: Tented camp; two men in berets attend to two 3-inch mortars; one checks the elevation adjustment of one of the mortars. Men with 2-inch mortars and ammunition. Men with ...
Reel 1, shot on 10 December 1944: Wide shot in ...
High angle shots from roof of Secretariat building of procession moving though Columbo with civilians all around. Twelve Spitfire Mk VIII's in four three-aircraft 'vics' fly ...
After the victory at Tamu, Burma, troops of 1st Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders retire to a rest camp where local Naga tribesmen help them to ...
RAF Douglas Dakota aircraft, operating from Chandina, seen resupplying troops with food and ammunition at Murdoch and Taung Bazaar.
Supplies ...
Indians and Britons compete at an inter-Service athletics meeting, hosted by the RAF at Charbatia, north of Cuttack, Orissa, India.
VIP's ...
Scenes of RAF airmen preparing for a Bristol Beaufighter sortie over Burma.
Airborne footage of flight over coastal areas of Burma, both ...
After monsoon weather washes away an RAF church five days before a special Thanksgiving Service, a new church is quickly built in its place.
...
The RAF demonstrates close support techniques in cooperation with a British armoured unit.
Wide shot of an open plain with a pall of smoke. ...
(Reel 1) Introduction states that film describes Coastal Command's anti-U-boat operations up to June 1944. "Although weapons and tactics and areas have changed since then, the strategic principles and organisation of command remain the same." Air ...
Footage of RAF Hawker Hurricane pilots preparing for an attack on Japanese positions on the Imphal front, India.
Aerial view of airfield with ...
Reel 1: Men gathered around sketch map. Close-up with finger pointing out various locations. A Burmese instructor in front of a blackboard teaches RAF airmen basic phrases such ...
Air-to-ground footage of RAF Consolidated Liberator heavy bombers attacking installations and facilities at Moulmein (Mawlamyaing), Burma.
Air ...
Reel 1: Supermarine Spitfire with control tower in background. Hawker Hurricanes with propellors spinning before taxiing away past camera. Douglas Dakota aircraft being unloaded ...
Training exercise at RAF School for Jungle Self-Preservation in India summarises for benefit of aircrews forced to land behind enemy lines best techniques for survival.
Commentary over film lists subjects of ...
Reel 1: Docks on the Hooghly River, Calcutta; river craft are unloaded. Two men stand on top of a lorry as it is hoisted onto the quayside by a crane. Barge being unloaded; a ...
Scenes of RAF anti-mosquito operations around Imphal, India.
Three Hawker Hurricanes overhead spraying kerosene and DDT. Shot of two Hurricanes ...
Air Commodore Mellersh RAF, Air Commander Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command and Air Vice Marshal Stevens of the Royal Canadian Air Force ...
Drama-documentary about a Methodist mission founded in 1816 in Colombo, which helps young tea-plantation workers to learn new skills.
Reel One.
Scenes of a tea plantation. Women picking and sorting leaves, men weighing the ...
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 ...
Reel 1: Panning shot showing an apparently intact (T-shaped?) ...
Reel 1: Medium shot showing a tent, a look-out post up a tree, and two parked vehicles. One of the vehicles is an ambulance, the other the airstrip's crash tender. Looking up ...
The new resident minister in British West Africa, Captain the Rt. Hon. Harold Balfour M.P., meets the Nigerian Emir at Kano.
Footage from July 1944 showing a road ...
Scenes on the road lines of communication from Dimapur, India, to Kalewa, Burma.
Aerial footage of the road in mountainous terrain between Palel ...
Part 1: On a road in rolling countryside a sign reads Diversion; ...
The South African Army at war.
Film showing: the departure of troops to Kenya; how the equipment was provided; troops arriving in East Africa; military stores; field workshops; men working in the desert; ...
