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• THE BRITISH ARMY IN BURMA 1944

  part of "WAR OFFICE, CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION AND AMERICAN SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  During the approach to Mandalay British troops closed in on the Japanese who were strongly entrenched around the weir sluices on the River Mu. These soldiers keep watch on Japanese positions only 400 yds away.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN BURMA 1945

  part of "WAR OFFICE, CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION AND AMERICAN SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  A DUKW reversing into a landing craft at Akyab during the embarkation of No. 3 Commando for the Myebon Peninsula, 11 January 1945.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN BURMA 1944

  part of "WAR OFFICE, CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION AND AMERICAN SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beech, P M

  A Bailey bridge over the Chindwin River near Kalewa, December 1944.

• SPORT & LEISURE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  Wrestling in progress in an Indian MT Regiment.

• THE WAR EFFORT IN INDIA, 1942

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  Workers at an Indian railway workshop now employed in the construction of armoured vehicles.

• AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS IN INDIA, 1942

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  Indian women training for air raid precautions (ARP) duties in Bombay.

• JAPANESE SURRENDER AT SINGAPORE, 12 SEPTEMBER 1945

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  The Instrument of Surrender signed at Singapore by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten for the Allies and General Itagaki for the Japanese.

• THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST: THE CAMPAIGN IN INDIA

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  A patrol sets off, with their equipment mounted on mules, Bhopal, India

• INDIAN TROOPS IN BURMA, 1944

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  An Indian infantry section of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Rajput Regiment about to go on patrol on the Arakan front, Burma.

• WEST AFRICAN TROOPS IN INDIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  Indian soldiers mingle with men of the 81st West African Division after the latter had arrived in India for jungle training. The first African colonial troops to fight outside Africa, the 81st Division went on to Burma in December 1943.