5TH INDIAN DIVISION ADVANCE THROUGH TIDDIM TO KENNEDY PEAK [Allocated Title]
- Title: 5TH INDIAN DIVISION ADVANCE THROUGH TIDDIM TO KENNEDY PEAK [Allocated Title]
- Film Number: JFU 120
- Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
- Summary: Troops of the 5th Indian Division pass through Tiddim, Burma, having taken the town, and move on towards Kennedy Peak.
- Description: A General Grant tank passes on a road with the town of Tiddim in the background. A second tank passes. A Grant tank advances along a very heavily rutted road through the jungle. A Valentine tank fitted with a scissors bridge comes towards camera. A bulldozer smoothes the road. Two shirtless soldiers walk towards camera with Tiddim in the background. Soldiers walk in twos along the road; some carry spades and picks. Three jeeps with trailers head off up the track which winds up a hillside. A truck passes a mule train. Several jeeps with trailers pass. Trucks and jeeps drive over heavily rutted roads. Soldiers lift a tin bath off the back of a jeep (the bath looks as if it could do with a good clean). On board a tank, various shots of the crew in their positions. A General Grant tank comes round a corner in the jungle and is swathed in dust. A Grant tank drives over the camera in the middle of the road. Same shot. Views from the back of a jeep as it drives along. Soldiers from 351st Anti-Tank Battery 56th Anti-Tank Regiment sitting on the roadside are given copies of the SEAC newspaper which they begin to read. A destroyed Japanese tank is climbed over by a British soldier; Kennedy Peak is swathed in cloud behind the tank.
- Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
- Colour: B&W
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- Object_Number: JFU 120
- Sound: Silent
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1939-1945
- Production Date: 1944-10-25
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) SEAC Film Unit (Production company) Hewit, J R (Production individual)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Artillery, 351st Anti-Tank Battery (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Artillery, 56th Anti-Tank Regiment (regiment/service) Indian Army, 5th Indian Division (regiment/service) Indian Army, 123rd Indian Infantry Brigade (regiment/service)
- Keywords: Tiddim, Burma (geography) Kennedy Peak, Burma (geography) Tiddim Road 1944, 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: 479 ft; Running time: 6 mins
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