Canadian airmen of RCAF 435 Squadron deliver rice to Burmese civilians via the Civil Affairs Service (CAS).
A Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) ...
Canadian airmen of RCAF 435 Squadron deliver rice to Burmese civilians via the Civil Affairs Service (CAS).
A Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) ...
Amateur film. Leith Harbour; large ships in docks; whale catchers; cattle meal warehouse; beach; penquins; barge with guana sacks; motor boats; catching large fish. Journey home to Las Palmas harbour, Canary Islands.
Hill feature 676 near Taungtha, north-west of Meiktila, Burma, dominates the road to Meiktila and the Japanese are using the position as an observation ...
After the capture of the Ava Bridge and the city of Sagaing in Central Burma officers from the British capturing forces meet from opposite sides of the ...
A captured Japanese machine gun is evaluated by British troops for record purposes at Pauktabin, Burma.
A Japanese Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun, ...
Central or Northern Nigeria: Jos Plateau; children in village and guinea corn; baby bathed on gourds; pounding maize; giving baby a drink; portraits of women and men with face scars; grinding corn with rocks; demonstrating spade and digging; boy with ...
North-east Nigeria or Cameroons: 1) Big game on the veldt; 2) two people riding; 3) Africans killing dogs, slitting their throats and collecting the blood; 4) a dog being burnt. The background is rocky, hilly scenery; 1945: 5) African woman in a ...
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.
The visual material is compatible with (rather than an ...
Shot by Lieutenant Abbas: Indian troops line a road as General Slim's jeep passes, followed by a second. Gurkha (?) troops at the roadside. Jeeps drive away from camera towards ...
After victory over the Japanese in the battle for Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma Lieutenant-General W J Slim takes part in a flag raising ceremony in ...
Reel 1: Aerial footage; landscapes and cloudscapes. Mountains, possibly the Himalayas. A settlement on a plain. A Chinese city street, possibly in Chungking. A group of four ...
On Christmas Day 1945 a party of around 70 Dutch and Chinese children are welcomed aboard the Royal Navy Harbour Repair Ship HMS Assistance, anchored ...
Some of the civilian population of Mandalay, Burma, are treated for malnutrition, disease and shrapnel and bullet wounds in a temporary hospital.
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After driving the Japanese out of the Akyab area of Burma the British-run Civil Affairs unit moves in to help the local population recover from the ...
Film showing various activities of the Civil Affairs Service (Burma) in Mandalay, including collecting weapons, issuing rations and pensions, ...
Burmese men buy longyis (traditional Burmese sarongs) from a stall. A Burmese woman brings a new born baby for a (Burmese?) military doctor to examine. Burmese men fill sacks with rice? in the background is ...
Civilian internees, freed from Japanese captivity at Tavoy (now Dawei) in Lower Burma, arrive by air at Mingaladon airfield near Rangoon before being ...
Cinemagazine for African distribution. This issue contains items on portraits of colonials in London, the rehabilitation of African soldiers in East Africa and a victory parade in Nairobi.
START 10:00:03 Views of dry savannah country in Kenya where two giraffes are seen roaming. Five white hunters turn up in a pick-up truck and pose with their weapons - mainly SMLE Mk III rifles - but one of the men, a professional game hunter, has a ...
Reel 1: Close-up of hands sorting aerial reconnaissance photographs. A man descends a ladder from a tall airfield control tower with palm thatch. View from the tower with an RAF ...
Open ground with troops on the move. Team of men hauls a wheeled trolley up the beach. Troops walking through tall grass. Signals post. Troops advancing in single file. Troops ...
Motor transport of IV Corps crosses a Bailey bridge near Toungoo (Taungoo) during the Allied drive on Rangoon, Burma.
An Ordnance QF 40mm (Bofors) ...
Somewhere in northern Burma, a small wooden bridge is used by men, mules and vehicles to cross a river.
Indian troops pass camera. They pass through ...
The RAF provides air cover and drops supplies for men of the 2nd Division as they cross the River Irrawaddy, Burma.
Distant shot of Spitfire ...