Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, presents British awards to personnel of the United States Army Air Force at the ...
Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, presents British awards to personnel of the United States Army Air Force at the ...
Reel 1: Panning shot over rooftops of Worli Transit Camp, Bombay, (Mumbai) India. Local women carrying 'charpoys'; bedsteads or cots with interlaced strings rather than slats. A ...
Additional footage for ABY 73 'So This Is India'.
Medium-distant shot of men loading a Bedford lorry. The lorry drives away with men waving. ...
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 ...
Further scenes for 'So This Is India' showing the move of RAF 30 Squadron and their Republic Thunderbolt fighters to a forward airfield.
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A further instalment of 'So This Is India' in which Aircraftman 'Paddy' Murray goes by air to a forward airstrip.
A lorry reverses towards a ...
A further instalment for 'So This Is India' sees Aircraftman Flower arrive at RAF Redhills Lake, Madras (Chennai) India.
Aircraftman Flower ...
An outline of the campaign in Burma from the abortive Japanese 'March on Delhi' offensive of 1944 to the Allies' recapture of Mandalay and Rangoon in May 1945.
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Lieutenant-General William Slim, commander of 14th Army, arrives at Meiktila, Burma, and holds a conference with other senior civil and military figures ...
Troops of 17th Indian Division seen attacking the village of Pyawbwe, on the road to Rangoon, Burma, and scenes after its capture.
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Supported by tanks, Gurkha infantry of 48th Brigade, 17th Indian Division, IV Corps, seen mopping up pockets of Japanese resistance at Yewe near Yindaw, ...
Indian Engineers of 17th Indian Division clear Japanese mines from the village of Kandaung prior to IV Corps' drive on Rangoon, capital of Burma.
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