LANDING ON AKYAB [Allocated Title]

British troops of 3rd Commando Brigade make an unopposed landing on a beach on Akyab Island (Sittwe), in the Arakan region of Burma.

Views from a Landing Craft Assault (possibly LCA 277) with other landing craft underway; a British commando sits on the gunwale in the foreground. Passing a small, single-funnel warship (an N Class destroyer?) with an LCA moving away from it. Aboard the cameraman’s LCA, a Commando piper playing bagpipes. Looking aft with other LCAs following in line astern. A Landing Craft Support Medium passing the cameraman’s landing craft. Various shot of landing craft underway. Looking forward to landing craft ahead. Medium close-up commando wearing a beret with a three-round mortar ammunition carrier on his back. The men onboard the craft; they are heavily laden with a variety of equipment. Men disembarking from the cameraman’s craft; they run up the beach. Wide shot of the beach with men running ashore. Man steps off the cameraman’s landing craft carrying a 3-inch mortar tube. View from the beach of an LCA beaching; it appears to have had its identifying number painted out and the men walk ashore. Men walking ashore directly towards camera; they appear amused to be filmed. More men walking ashore without apparent urgency. Wide shot showing LCAs beaching. Men disembarking. British troops hauling wheeled equipment trolleys up the beach from larger Landing Craft Mediums (LCMs).

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