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  1. Battle in Burma

    Date released
    18 May 1944
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    44/40
    NoS ID
    100378
    Story no
    5 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    The late General Wingate, seen with Admiral Mountbatten, inspecting Wingate’s Raiders at a Burma base. With the death of Wingate, his carefully laid plans are still being carried out, and British and...

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  2. Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: From the Fourteenth Army Front

    Date released
    21 Aug 1944
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    794
    NoS ID
    013195
    Story no
    1 / 3

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: On the 14th Army Front. DESCRIPTION: The Commander in South East Asia, Lord Louis Mountbatten, recently paid a visit to the Imphal front where he inspected men of the Fourteenth Army....

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  3. The Forgotten Army

    Date released
    12 Oct 1944
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    44/82
    NoS ID
    100508
    Story no
    4 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Men of the Chindits in action behind Japanese lines in Burma. Chinese troops advance through jungle joining up with the Chindits. Dakotas drop supplies by air. A stream is forded with bamboo canes cut by the...

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  4. The 14th Army in Arakan

    Date released
    27 Nov 1944
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    44/95
    NoS ID
    100554
    Story no
    4 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    British soldiers in the jungle of Burma firing bren guns, and loading and firing 25 pounders in their constant battle against the Japanese. With pack mules they trek through jungle and across streams. In...

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  5. Burma Background

    Date released
    30 Nov 1944
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    44/96
    NoS ID
    100556
    Story no
    2 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Burmese natives load barges with supplies for British troops in Burma. GVs as the boats sail up a Burmese river on the first stage of the 15 to 20 day journey. At a certain place the cargoes have to be...

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  6. Warriors Make Whoopee

    Date released
    28 Dec 1944
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    44/104
    NoS ID
    100589
    Story no
    3 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Head-hunting tribes from the Chin Hills in Burma celebrate victory over the Japanese by dancing. An added attraction is the bride’s dance performed by girls in competition for marriage. In South Africa,...

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  7. Allied Air Activities

    Date released
    4 Jan 1945
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    45/2
    NoS ID
    100595
    Story no
    1 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    RAF personnel including WAAFs arrive by troopship in India. They disembark and march away. At an RAF airfield in Burma, Liberators take off on a bombing raid. Aerial views show the bombers in flight and over...

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  8. The Road to Mandalay (Commentary by Major Frank Owen)

    Date released
    15 Jan 1945
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    45/5
    NoS ID
    100606
    Story no
    2 / 2
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Bridging the Chindwin during the 14th Army’s drive on Kalewa. Supplies are dropped by air to the troops and tribesmen of the Chin Hills collect them. Each soldier carries on his back about 50 lbs of pack...

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  9. War Report from East and West

    Date released
    18 Jan 1945
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    45/6
    NoS ID
    100609
    Story no
    3 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    British troops through jungle and streams during drive on Pinwe, Mandalay. They are led by a piper. In the Chin Hills Mitchell bombers hit at Jap troop concentrations on Kennedy Peak. On the Western Front...

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  10. Burma Front

    Date released
    25 Jan 1945
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    45/8
    NoS ID
    100616
    Story no
    3 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Liberators take off on another raid against Japanese supply lines on the Burma front. On another raid the planes head for the Pyinmana Railway Yards and Taungup on the Arakan front. Kennedy Peak in the Chin...

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