LANDING SUPPLIES AT AKYAB [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: LANDING SUPPLIES AT AKYAB [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: JFU 2
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Following the occupation of Akyab island, off the Arakan coast of Burma, supplies are brought ashore by landing craft and a Japanese bunker is found built into the walls of a Buddhist temple complex.
  • Description: Naval officer looking out to sea at Akyab. Pan showing a range of large merchant ships and landing craft off shore at the harbour. The harbour buildings are badly damaged. Landing Craft Mechanised (LCMs) heading ashore from a merchant ship. Landing Craft approaching. Pan showing the damaged dock facilities. A landing craft approaches carrying a caterpillar tractor. Beached landing craft. Caterpillar tractor driven slowly. Oil drums are rolled ashore and onto a lorry with close-up. Troops carry boxes of ammunition, including boxes of mortar rounds from a landing craft. Troops walk along a road carrying supplies. Pan of a supply dump. Men arrive carrying supplies which are then dumped. Unloading drums of POL (petrol, oil, lubricants) from a lorry. Stacking drums. A Buddhist temple complex, with glittering gilded spire, showing the wall of the temple grounds loopholed for defensive fire by a Japanese bunker. Shots of a damaged church; apparently with a bunker built into one side, but less obvious than at the temple.
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: JFU 2
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-01-31
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) SEAC Film Unit (Production company) Marshall, L W (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Merchant Navy (regiment/service) Royal Navy (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Akyab, Burma (geography) harbour, Akyab (geography) Landings in the Akyab area 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event) Burma 1942-1945 (theme) British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 391 ft; Running time: 5 mins
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    JFU 2

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    JFU 33 (LANDING ON AKYAB [Allocated Title]) ADM 1191 (ARAKAN OPERATION [Allocated Title]) ABY 54 (THE RECONNAISSANCE AND OCCUPATION OF AKYAB ISLAND, BURMA, AND THE ROLE OF RAF SERVICING COMMANDOS [Allocated Title]) FUB 44 (PREPARATION AND MOUNTING OF AMPHIBIOUS LANDINGS AT AKYAB [Allocated Title]) FUB 45 (BOMB DAMAGE IN THE ARAKAN [Allocated Title]) FUB 46 (COMMANDOS LAND ON AKYAB [Allocated Title]) FUB 47 (BOMB DAMAGE AND LANDINGS ON AKYAB ISLAND [Allocated Title]) FUB 49 (COMMANDOS MARCHING INLAND ON AKYAB [Allocated Title])
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