Title:JAPANESE BREAKOUT FROM THE PEGU YOMAS TO THE EAST [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 283
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Following the breakout of Japanese forces in the Pegu Yomas, mortars, armoured cars, tanks and infantry are deployed to prevent their escape eastwards, and a number of Japanese prisoners are taken.
Description: Views of a battery of Ordnance SB 4.2-inch heavy mortars in action at a railyard at Penwegon, Burma. An Indian mortar team operate an Ordnance ML 3-inch mortar mounted on a converted Humber Armoured Car. Daimler Armoured Cars of 16th Light Cavalry firing their QF 2-pounder main armament and machine guns. Open ground with drifting smoke. Turret of a Sherman medium tank with coaxial machine gun firing. A Sherman parked by a railway line; a crewman passes ammunition up to another in the turret. Ammunition is passed down into the tank. The tank's main gun firing. Infantry cross a river. Infantry of 1st Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles advancing in open order across paddy fields. A group of 30 Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) apparently captured east of the River Sittang by Burmese Patriotic Forces (formerly Burma National Army). Shot of prisoners' bare feet. Slow pan across group of POWs; some are without any clothing except loin cloths, others more or less fully clothed and they wear a variety of blank or sullen expressions. The POWs file off. Two Sikhs of 4th Battalion, 12th Frontier Force Regiment, with a Japanese POW who has his hands bound. Local Burmese porters carrying supplies. Wide shot of Sikhs crossing a paddy field; one misses his footing and falls into a ditch with a splash. Sikhs patrolling across frame.
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)
Indian Army, 10th Gurkha Rifles, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 12th Frontier Force Regiment, 4th Battalion (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 63rd Indian Infantry Brigade (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 16th Light Cavalry (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery, 82nd Anti-Tank Regiment (regiment/service)
Japanese Forces, Burma National Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Penwegon, Burma (geography)
Battle of the Sittang Bend 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
JFU 284 (JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR AT PENWEGON [Allocated Title])
JFU 285 (JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR AT PENWEGON [Allocated Title])
JFU 286 (JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR RECEIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT AND VISIT BY GENERAL AUCHINLECK TO PEGU [Allocated Title])
JFU 287 (BLOWING SPAN OF THE PEGU BRIDGE [Allocated Title])
JFU 351 (SURRENDER OF JAPANESE TROOPS ON THE BANKS OF THE SITTANG [Allocated Title])
JFU 289 (JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR RECEIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT [Allocated Title])
