Burma
Series
- Series Name
- War Pictorial News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 2
- Summary
- On the road to Mandalay. The British Fourteen Army blasts its way through the jungle and Japanese. Dead Japanese soldier; wounded Allied soldier. Surgical operation in the middle of the jungle. Allied dead being buried in the jungle. The new road across the Irrawaddy. Burmese solders help in the operations - including girls. At Wan Ting, on the border, a V sign in flowers is seen. China reached. Chinese market place. Crossing the Salween River. Action stations taken along the road to counter attack from the Japanese. At Kunming, US troops receive a huge welcome. A triumphal procession takes place in which General Pick takes part. He is received by General Lung Yan.
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Women; Ceremonies; Casualties; Engineering; Military; Funerals
- 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.
- Series held
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