OPERATION ZIPPER: 25TH INDIAN DIVISION LAND AT MORIB, MALAYA [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: OPERATION ZIPPER: 25TH INDIAN DIVISION LAND AT MORIB, MALAYA [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: JFU 319
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Troops of 25th Indian Division make an amphibious landing on the coast of Malaya at Morib as part of Operation Zipper.
  • Description: Troops making their way along the dockside at Madras before boarding their troopships. Close-up of the 'ace of spades' insignia of 25th Indian Division. Views from aboard one of the troopships with men on deck and looking out over the rails. A Landing Craft Mechanised (LCM) ready to be lowered. Troops assembled on deck. Distant (and very grey) view of a Landing Ship Tank. View from an LCA, looking towards another, with a crew member signalling by semaphore. View of the distant invasion fleet. LCA 1462 at speed; camera pans right. LCA 1392 underway. 1392 appears to motor in the opposite direction and so the cameraman's landing craft is presumably between 1392 and 1462. Water churning at the stern. An officer (?) standing up and apparently giving some sort of vigorous hand signal. A Fairey Barracuda aircraft overhead. Men crowded aboard the LCA. View of LCA 1462 then very fast pan right to men aboard the cameraman's landing craft. Landing craft hitting the beach at high tide with men disembarking. Men disembarking from LCA 1392 alongside with more in the distance; LCA 1444 is visible. 1462 and 1457 beached with men stepping off one of their ramps into deep water. Two local civilians are spoken to by a British Civil Affairs officer with close-up. View along the beach showing the landing of the second wave. Sikh infantry leaving the beach. Two Indians push a large hand cart loaded with equipment. Men stepping off LCA 1712; pan to group of men by a tree, one of them using an Aldis signalling lamp. Indian troops carrying folded stretchers. Two Japanese officers standing in an open-topped car. Japanese officer speaks with an Indian officer, apparently the battalion commander of 2nd Battalion 2nd Punjab Regiment. Medium close-up of the Japanese officer; another stands behind him smoking a cigarette in a long holder.
  • 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 319
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-09-09
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) SEAC Film Unit (Production company) Govan, Harold WilliamBritish Army sergeant-cameraman with South East Asia Command Film Unit (British) and No.9 Army Film & Photographic Unit, formerly Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), service number 7662913, BEM in London Gazette 37576 published 21 May 1946, pg 2. (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Indian Army, 25th Indian Division (regiment/service) Indian Army, 2nd Punjab Regiment, 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Morib, Malaya (geography) Operation Zipper 1945, Malaya, Second World War (event) Allied Occupation of Malaya, Allied Occupation of South East Asia post-August 1945 (event) India 1939-1945 (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: 310 ft; Running time: 4 mins
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    JFU 319

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    JFU 323 (OPERATION ZIPPER: AMPHIBIOUS LANDINGS ON THE MALAYAN COAST BY 23RD INDIAN DIVISION AT AND AROUND PORT DICKSON [Allocated Title]) Documents.5834 (System.Xml.XmlElement)
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