Towill Collection

Intertitles. Village life in India, location unidentified. Shoeing an ox; preparing toddy; pottery. Various scenes in Burma, inc. Mandalay Bazaar. Scenes in Benares; ghats. Puri indicated on intertitle, but film ends.

... down spire of Shwe Dagon Pagoda in centre of Rangoon and shows temple lion statues and feeding of pigeons. Views of former capital Mandalay show the moat surrounding the Fort and a temple.

III. Spring thaw hampers German armour on Central Sector of ...

... ; it is marked with the badge of XXXIII Indian Corps.

Notes

The dopesheet gives the location as Yadaw '44 miles up[stream from] Mandalay'. The dopesheet states the river is the Irrawaddy, but might in fact be the Mu River, Yadaw being near ...

... visits the officers and men who helped capture Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma, from the Japanese and speaks to various units of ... . After addressing a group of men he climbs the covered steps on Mandalay Hill and is briefed on the battle as it progressed by ...

... , many of the men are unshaven and carry Lee-Enfield .303-in Mk III rifles. A Chindit crouches by the tracks of the Mandalay-Myitkyina railway, manning a Vickers .303-in water-cooled heavy machine gun mounted on a tripod. A bare-chested Chindit fires a ...

... of Greek civilians hold Allied Flags and placards, one of which reads "English, Greece is grateful to you - EAS."

III. 'ROAD TO MANDALAY.' United States Army Air Force (USAAF) Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft drop supplies at low-level to ...

... civilian police holdback large crowds of onlookers.

II. 'VICTORY AT MANDALAY.' Indian troops load 75mm pack howitzers into the ... Mk IIC fighter-bombers attack Japanese positions on Mandalay Hill. RAF Republic (P-47) Thunderbolt Mk II fighter aircraft ...

... shows the US national flag being hoisted on Iwo Jima. Lord Louis Mountbatten chats to General Sir William Slim during a visit to Mandalay in Burma (cf WPN 301). A map shows the location of Okinawa. US M4 Sherman flame throwing tanks (M4 POA-CWS 75-HI flame ...

Allied Military Government

I. Allies capture Mandalay.Film of air strikes and street fighting; soldiers and locals fraternise; Lord Mountbatten.

II. Film of German surrenders. German surrenders at Caserta, at Lneburg Heath (Montgomery, Friedeburg ...

... . The West Africans have thus helped the British drive on Mandalay by containing Japanese forces in Arakan. The 82nd pursues the enemy ... and arduous campaign’ – and notes that when Mandalay fell to ‘British and Indian forces, West Africans ...

... the monsoon, reaching the Irrawaddy in early 1945, and crossing it in the boats built by Slim's forces. They take Mandalay in March 1945. In this episode, Mountbatten pays tribute to the commanders under him, Stilwell, Wingate (rather modified praise) and ...