LANDING ON AKYAB [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: LANDING ON AKYAB [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: JFU 33
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: British troops of 3rd Commando Brigade make an unopposed landing on a beach on Akyab Island (Sittwe), in the Arakan region of Burma.
  • Description: Views from a Landing Craft Assault (possibly LCA 277) with other landing craft underway; a British commando sits on the gunwale in the foreground. Passing a small, single-funnel warship (an N Class destroyer?) with an LCA moving away from it. Aboard the cameraman’s LCA, a Commando piper playing bagpipes. Looking aft with other LCAs following in line astern. A Landing Craft Support Medium passing the cameraman’s landing craft. Various shot of landing craft underway. Looking forward to landing craft ahead. Medium close-up commando wearing a beret with a three-round mortar ammunition carrier on his back. The men onboard the craft; they are heavily laden with a variety of equipment. Men disembarking from the cameraman’s craft; they run up the beach. Wide shot of the beach with men running ashore. Man steps off the cameraman’s landing craft carrying a 3-inch mortar tube. View from the beach of an LCA beaching; it appears to have had its identifying number painted out and the men walk ashore. Men walking ashore directly towards camera; they appear amused to be filmed. More men walking ashore without apparent urgency. Wide shot showing LCAs beaching. Men disembarking. British troops hauling wheeled equipment trolleys up the beach from larger Landing Craft Mediums (LCMs).
  • 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 33
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-01-03
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) SEAC Film Unit (Production company) Brown, T V (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, 3rd Commando Brigade (regiment/service) Royal Australian Navy, NEPAL (HMAS), destroyer (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Akyab, Burma (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: 306 ft; Running time: 4 mins
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    JFU 33

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    JFU 2 (LANDING SUPPLIES AT 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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