PREPARATIONS FOR LANDINGS ON MYEBON PENINSULA [Allocated Title]

25th Indian Division prepares to make amphibious landings on the Myebon Peninsula, on the Arakan coast of Burma.

Light lorries laden with stores driving along a beach; an officer directs them. Indian troops passing with assault ships moored in the background. Indian troops sitting on the ground. Men on the beach with landing craft in the background. Unloading stores from a lorry; the men wear the 'ace of spades' patch of 25th Indian Division. The men don inflatable life belts and are inspected by a subedar major. A landing craft assault (LCA) drives towards camera. Men board a landing craft, LCA 2104, with a larger craft behind. Loading timber using a crane. A lorry reverses onto a landing craft. Looking down on Indian infantry aboard a landing craft. Footage from a landing craft underway. Close-up Indian havildar with a sailor of the Royal Indian Navy behind. Transferring troops and stores to a larger vessel; one soldier hefts his large pack. British troops (commandos of 3 Commando Brigade) on deck of a cruiser; one officer has an American M1 Garand rifle. Transferring stores. Men transferring stores from landing craft to beach. Men on the beach. Close-up sign ‘Vehicle Transit Area’. Sign ‘Amn. det. [ammunition detachment]’.

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