Title:GUNNERS OF 53RD BRIGADE LANDING NEAR RU-YWA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 13
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: During the night Royal Artillery troops landed on a small island near Ru-Ywa, Burma, and manhandled their 5.5 inch guns into position to shell Japanese positions in the nearby village.
Description: View from a Landing Craft Mechanised of other vessels of the landing force. A small launch passes. Passing some kind of landing ship and small coaster fitted and marked as a hospital ship. More views of landing craft heading upstream. In fading light, silhouettes of troops unloading supplies from a landing craft. Daylight; on open ground a large lorry and a 5.5-inch medium gun of B Troop, 19 Battery, 6th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery. Gun and gunners unloading ammunition from the lorry and carrying it away. Gunners haul on a rope to move their gun. Gunners eating. A battery surveyor (possibly of 2nd Survey Regiment, Royal Artillery) uses a theodolite. Erecting a camouflage net. Preparing ammunition. Close-up fusing a shell. Stacking ready ammunition. Three gunners at a map table; pan to wireless set and signallers. On an airstrip men stand about while two others tend to a Stinson Sentinel light aircraft. Close-up officer winding over the propeller; a piece of nose art shows an image of a woman named ‘Arakan Sue’. The aircraft, probably of Royal Air Force 656 Squadron (Air Observation Post) takes off. At the battery three men, including the Battery Major, Major Green, in discussion over a map. More ammunition is unloaded from a landing craft and carried up a muddy beach. A gun under a camouflage net is prepared for firing. Wide shot of the battery; two guns (one in front and out of shot frame right) fire simultaneously and the muzzle blast of the nearer gun kicks up debris in the foreground. The further gun is fired again.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
SEAC Film Unit (Production company)
MacTavish, DuncanDuncan MacTavish, service number 378125, sergeant cameraman with No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit, later promoted 2nd Lieutenant 6 September 1945 (see Supplement to the London Gazette, 11 April 1947). (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Green (Major) (person)
British Army, Royal Artillery, 6th Medium Regiment, 19 Battery, B Troop (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 53rd Indian Infantry Brigade (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 25th Indian Division (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, 656 Squadron (regiment/service)
Keywords: Ru-Ywa, Burma (geography)
Third Arakan Campaign 1944-1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Landings at Ru-Ywa 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
JIN 4 (AMPHIBIOUS LANDING IN THE ARAKAN AT RU-YWA [Allocated Title])
JIN 5 (AMPHIBIOUS LANDING IN THE ARAKAN AT RU-YWA - AERIAL VIEWS [Allocated Title])
