FALL OF PINWE (AMERICAN CAMERAMAN) [Allocated Title]

In northern Burma, an American cameraman films 1st Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers' entry into Pinwe on St Andrew's Day, 30 November 1944.

File of British infantry of 1st Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers walking along a railway line towards camera. A shirtless British soldier, with slung rifle and hat bearing the badge of 36th Division, stands at a railway sign for Pinwe. British troops advancing through wreckage at Pinwe station. Troops moving on with a piper playing (an American photographer is seen briefly). Feet trudging along the railway line. Troops walking along a road through trees; some of the troops are Vickers machine gunners. Piper passing. Closer shot of troops passing. Brief very close shot of a British soldier. File of troops cross a log of a broken bridge. Troops improving the bridge. Shot looking up through the bridge as troops cross (the troops are apparently waiting on the cameraman). Soldier hammering on the bridge. Laying logs. Shattered trees in a wood with silhouetted figures and a man carrying logs in the middle distance. Camera pans with a British soldier picking his way over fallen trees and thin smoke blows across shot.

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