Title:BOFORS GUNNERS PRACTISE LOADING AND UNLOADING FROM LANDING CRAFT ON RAMREE ISLAND [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 216
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Gunners of 36th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, equipped with QF 40mm (Bofors) guns, practice loading and unloaded their weapons from a Landing Craft Tank on the beach at Kyaukpyu, Ramree Island, Burma.
Description: A Bofors gun, on its four-wheeled carriage, is manhandled up the ramp of Landing Craft Tank (LCT) 2425. Ropes are tied to the carriage's axle. Several views of a Bofors being put aboard. A Chevrolet CMP lorry tows a Bofors gun off the LCT. A lorry driver reverses his vehicle onto the LCT with the help of another soldier giving hand signals. View from the LCT of a gun being towed off. Another CMP reverses onto the LCT. Wide shot showing a CMP lorry emerging with gunners following behind. The gun is towed along the beach.
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)
Brown, T V (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Artillery, 36th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment (regiment/service)
Indian Army, XV Indian Corps (regiment/service)
Keywords: Kyaukpyu, Ramree, Burma (geography)
Third Arakan Campaign 1944-1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Liberation of Rangoon 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
