Title:GENERAL KIMURA AND STAFF SURRENDER SWORDS AT TWELFTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 422
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: With the Japanese capitulation General Heitaro Kimura and his staff surrender their swords to their British counterparts in a formal ceremony at Twelfth Army headquarters in Rangoon, Burma.
Description: Japanese surrender party and escorts march onto the parade ground. Lieutenant-General Sir Montagu Stopford, commander of Twelfth Army, inspects a guard of honour from 25th Indian Mountain Regiment, Indian Artillery. Major Kono and Colonel Ashikawa surrender their swords to Major F S Moffett and Colonel J H E Nash. Lieutenant-General Sakurai, commander Japanese 28th Army, surrenders his sword to Brigadier J D Shapland (commander Royal Artillery, Twelfth Army). General Kimura, commander Burma Area Army and escorted by Brigadier L J Woodhouse (commander No.1 Area (Rangoon) South Burma District), surrenders his sword to Brigadier E F E Armstrong (Brigadier General Staff, Twelfth Army) who in turn presents it to Stopford.
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)
Miller, E E (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Stopford, Montagu George North (person)
Shapland, John Dee (person)
Woodhouse, Louis James (person)
Armstrong, Edward Francis Egerton (person)
Sakurai, Shozo (person)
Kimura, Heitaro (person)
British Army, 12th Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Rangoon, Burma (geography)
Surrender of Japanese Forces 1945, Burma, Second World War (event)
Empire & Commonwealth (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
Indian Army 1939-1945 (theme)
JFU 421 (GENERAL KIMURA AND STAFF SURRENDER SWORDS AT TWELFTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS [Allocated Title])
JFU 423 (RANGOON, BURMA: SURRENDER OF SWORDS BY GENERAL KIMURA AND STAFF AT TWELFTH ARMY HQ [Allocated Title])
SE 5414 (THE BRITISH REOCCUPATION OF BURMA, 1945)
SE 5415 (THE BRITISH REOCCUPATION OF BURMA, 1945)
SE 5416 (THE BRITISH REOCCUPATION OF BURMA, 1945)
SE 5417 (THE BRITISH REOCCUPATION OF BURMA, 1945)
