Title:TANK, INFANTRY AND AIR ATTACK ON PAYAGYI [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 256
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Gurkha infantry of 63rd Brigade, supported by tanks and aircraft, attack a Japanese position at Payagyi, ten miles north of Pegu near Milestone 60 on the road to Rangoon, capital of Burma.
Description: A wide shot of a large group of infantry (of 1st Battalion, 10th Gurkha Rifles) advancing across an open field towards a treeline. A number of Sherman medium tanks, probably of Probyn's Horse, give support. The infantry seen running across the field, presumably under fire, with a smokescreen providing some limited cover. An Indian soldier passes a burning hut. A burning roof. Two infantrymen, with bayonets fixed, pass a large burning building by the roadside. View of the distant treeline with smoke and the spire of a large pagoda visible. An aircraft, probably an RAF Republic Thunderbolt fighter-bomber, passes low over the open ground. A group of signallers sit with their equipment as a Sherman passes across shot right-to-left. The tank drives towards the treeline with infantry crouching in the grass nearby. A tank firing its coaxial machine gun; a Gurkha in the foreground wipes his brow. A small white cloud of smoke spreading. A tank firing with infantry crouching behind it.
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)
Higgins, K G (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Indian Army, 10th Gurkha Rifles, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 5th King Edward's Own Lancers (Probyn's Horse) (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 255th Indian Tank Brigade (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 17th Indian Division (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 63rd Indian Infantry Brigade (regiment/service)
Keywords: Payagyi, Burma (geography)
Rangoon Road 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
