Title:MANDALAY - MOUNTBATTEN VISITS KING THIBAW'S PALACE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 85
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Lord Louis Mountbatten visits Fort Dufferin and King Thibaw's Palace, Mandalay, Burma, after British soldiers captured them from the Japanese.
Description: Lord Mountbatten inspects tanks left behind by the retreating Japanese forces and then climbs the steps and walks through the remains of King Thibaw's Palace which has been badly damaged. He talks to an Army officer as they look out over the wall and moat of the fort.
Mandalay railway station is badly damaged and the tracks have been bombed. Rolling stock is scattered and burned across the rails. Platforms and their canopies show severe bomb damage.
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)
Watson, W (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:Mountbatten, Louis (Earl)
Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person)
Keywords: Mandalay, Burma (geography)
Mandalay 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
ABY 86 (SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER LORD MOUNTBATTEN VISITS MANDALAY, BURMA [Allocated Title])
JFU 77 (VISIT OF LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN TO MANDALAY [Allocated Title])
JFU 78 (MANDALAY AND SUPREMO'S VISIT [Allocated Title])
