Burma
Series
- Series Name
- War Pictorial News
Issue
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:
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- Commentator
- Rex Keating
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive
- 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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