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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Front Line Newspaper (Commentary by Major Frank Owen)

    Date released
    1 Feb 1945
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    45/10
    NoS ID
    100621
    Story no
    4 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Men of the 14th Army advancing through mud in the jungle of Burma, but wherever they are they have their own newspaper delivered to them. General scenes inside the office of the SEAC newspaper in Calcutta....

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  7. Burma - After Kennedy Peak ... Kalemyo

    Date released
    5 Feb 1945
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    45/11
    NoS ID
    100622
    Story no
    1 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Troops of the 5th Indian Division after their triumph at Kennedy Peak advance towards Kalemyo. They are seen moving through elephant grass and are soon on the road, stopping at a village which has been badly...

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  8. The Road to China - Story of the Ledo-Burma Road Told by Major Frank Owen

    Date released
    8 Mar 1945
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    45/20
    NoS ID
    100654
    Story no
    4 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Aerial view of the Ledo road passing through mountains. American vehicles driving along the road and crossing bridge. Chinese labourers at work on the Burma Road, breaking, sorting and carrying stones....

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  9. British Advance on Mandalay

    Date released
    26 Mar 1945
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    45/25
    NoS ID
    100669
    Story no
    3 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Tanks of the 14th Army go forward through jungle knocking down chalets and trees. This is the last stage of the drive which won back Mandalay. But it isn’t only the Japanese who are the enemy - there is...

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  10. The Berkshires in Mandalay Capture

    Date released
    2 Apr 1945
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    45/27
    NoS ID
    100673
    Story no
    3 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Men of the 38th Chinese Division add artillery weight to the drive towards Mandalay. Close air co-operation comes from American dive bombers. Five hundred miles of hard fighting across Burma brought the...

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