Title:TANKS AND INFANTRY IN ACTION NEAR KLETEK SOUTH OF SURABAYA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 593
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: At Kletek, south of Surabaya (Sourabaya/Soerabaya) in Java, Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia) tanks of 13th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Lancers and infantry of 5th Indian Division engage Indonesian militia after encountering a roadblock.
Description: View through an aperture of some kind, with .303-calibre Browning machine gun, firing intermittently, entering frame left. View of a small hut under fire (apparently about to be obliterated by 75mm gunfire) with smoke drifting. Road with a tank reversing; the commander appears to gesture to a pair of Indian troops taking cover at the roadside. Close-up of a Browning machine gun being fired with a belt of ammunition passing through it. Infantry passing a roadblock. A Sherman tank, some distance off, with its turret trained towards an enemy position.
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)
Davis, Desmond (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Indian Army, 13th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Lancers (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 5th Indian Division (regiment/service)
Keywords: Surabaya, Indonesia (geography)
Surabaya, Java, Netherlands East Indies (geography)
Allied Occupation of the Netherlands East Indies, Allied Occupation of South East Asia post-August 1945 (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
