... of Myingyan formed part of a series of operations to link up IV Corps, fighting at Meiktila, and XXXIII Corps, fighting at Mandalay. During this action, Lieutenant Karamjeet Singh Judge won the Victoria Cross. According to his citation, he 'dominated the ...

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The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits Burma's second city, Mandalay, and meets Lieutenant-General Stopford, whose troops captured the city.

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... WORLD WARIndia

At Kanbalu, on the railway line to Mandalay, Gurkha troops pass on the march.

Gurkha troops with ... Kanbalu is a town north of Zigon and Shwebo on the Mandalay-Mogaung railway line. These Gurkhas are of 19th ...

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

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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 ...

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I. "The road to Mandalay." Report that the Fourteenth Army is beating back the Japanese is accompanied by film illustrating the difficult conditions under which this campaign is being fought: soldiers ford a shallow stream and continue on through a ...

... Commentary states that bridgehead on the far side of the Rhine is secure.

II. "Fourteenth Army's triumph." Sherman tanks enter Mandalay, as Burmese peasants move along the road on bullock-drawn carts. Three Burmese men show the traces of the torture ...

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I. "Mandalay Falls." No actual film of the entry of troops into Mandalay, but coverage of a village on the outskirts being pounded by artillery, view of General Rees at a forward position and film of Indian and British troops moving forward along a ...

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 ...

GB

... created mausoleum (Oung, 1996, 47).

The footage seen in Mandalay-Rangoon was shot by Lieutenant Colonel Frank Outram ... ‘Absolutely smashing film in colour’. In Mandalay-Rangoon this description is applicable even to ...

... 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 ...