Burma

Series

Series Name

War Pictorial News

Issue

Issue No.

189

Date Released

18 Dec 1944

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Burma
2. 2Sinking of the Tirpitz
3. 3Churchill in Paris

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

The Fourteenth Army in Arakan; the difficulty of keeping good supply lines; the rain; conditions in the jungle; firing shells on Japanese; flimsy tents used by troops; troops knee-deep in water, transporting guns through the mud. The wounded are placed on stretchers and tended. Japanese storm Mayu Ridge; British Artillery retaliates. US NATIONAL ARCHIVE ENTRY: 10 min, sd, B&W, 35mm British Fourteenth Army units enter a jungle and move through mud near Arakan, Burma; mules carry supplies; water buckets are passed up a hill from man to man; food is distributed; field guns are dragged through mud; a stream is crossed; stretcher cases are brought to an aid tent; and field guns, mortars and machine guns are fired. Record Group 208 Accession 3276

Keywords

Health and medicine; Weather; Weapons; Casualties; Animals; Military

Credits:

Commentator

Rex Keating

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive

Email

film@iwm.org.uk

Web

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/film

Phone

020 7416 5291

Fax

020 7416 5379

Address

Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ

Notes

The IWM also preserves the original nitrate film copies for the World War II period of British Paramount News, Gaumont British News and Universal News.

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