Title:PREPARATIONS FOR DRIVE ON MANDALAY [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 19
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The army use deceptive tactics in order to mislead the Japanese in preparation for the crossing of the River Irrawaddy before the assault on the city of Mandalay, Burma.
Description: A recce unit of the 2nd Division is shown preparing equipment including swimming fins, pistol and grenades, mask and surfboard for crossing a river in the Ondaw Sector. Soldiers move civilians, who are gathered on the roadside in bullock drawn carts, as though in preparation for an attack. This is in fact to fool nearby Japanese units that an attack is taking place in one area when in fact it will be in another. 29th Company RASC (Royal Army Service Corps) unload and test artillery ammunition.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Date:1945-02-10 1945-02-11 1945-02-12 1945-02-13 1945-02-14 1945-02-15
Production Country: GB
Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
SEAC Film Unit (Production company)
Govan, Harold WilliamBritish Army sergeant-cameraman with South East Asia Command Film Unit (British) and No.9 Army Film & Photographic Unit, formerly Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), service number 7662913, BEM in London Gazette 37576 published 21 May 1946, pg 2. (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Army Service Corps, 29th Company (regiment/service)
British Army, 2nd Division (regiment/service)
Keywords: Irrawaddy (River), Burma (geography)
Irrawaddy Crossing 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
