Title:AIR AND ARTILLERY STRIKE ON JAPANESE POSITIONS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 112
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Artillery and air strikes are used to assist an attack by 17th Indian Division on Japanese held positions on the Pindale to Mahlaing road, Burma.
Description: Ordnance BL 5.5-inch Medium Guns fire several times. Mortar crews, in pits, fire; they are dug in right next to a white Buddhist pagoda; the pits are between three and four feet deep. Air burst shells, apparently from QF 3.7-inch anti-aircraft guns, give out bursts of black smoke over a white pagoda. Bombs are dropped on the road and plumes of dust and smoke rise up high into the air. Six North American B-25 Mitchell bombers fly over in formation. More bomb explosions. Smoke and dust fills the whole area. More explosions. Six Mitchells fly over in two formations of three. More large explosions. Infantry run across a field right to left and more explosions occur in the background.
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)
Sanders, P A (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Indian Army, 17th Indian Division (regiment/service)
United States Army Air Forces (regiment/service)
Keywords: Pindale, Burma (geography)
Mahlaing, Burma (geography)
Battle of Meiktila 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
JFU 110 (AIRSTRIKE AND ARTILLERY ON JAPANESE POSITIONS [Allocated Title])
JFU 108 (5.5-INCH HOWITZERS FIRING IN SUPPORT OF 17TH INDIAN DIVISION [Allocated Title])
