FINAL ASSAULT ON MONYWA [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: FINAL ASSAULT ON MONYWA [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: MWY 76
  • Other titles: INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: As 32nd Indian Infantry Brigade, of 20th Indian Division, enter Monywa in central Burma, aircraft and mortars provide support and troops then clear the town's jail.
  • Description: An Allied aircraft, possibly a Mosquito, attacking a target in the distance with smoke rising. More attacking aircraft. Indian troops in open ground; some are sitting up (to watch the aircraft?). A Sikh soldier watches an aircraft attack. Troops crossing open ground; one gets momentarily tangled in a wire fence. Indian 3-inch mortar battery in action. Indian troops, probably of 9th Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment, foreground with a smokescreen spreading a short distance away. Troops moving out onto open ground. Two British officers, probably Brigadier D A L Mackenzie and his adjutant, watching the advance; Mackenzie (?) has a slung Sten gun (with nonstandard foregrip?) which he appears to hurriedly unsling before changing his mind. The adjutant (?) makes a vigorous forward sweeping motion with his arm and steps forward out of shot. Troops in open ground. Profile shot of Mackenzie (?), looking through binoculars; he turns towards camera. Panning landscape shot with smoke in the distance. A signaller uses a wireless set in a ditch or long grass (unclear composition). Troops move along a track. Five troops in a line walk through the gates of a jail in Monywa. Soldier by broken wall. Looking through jail gates; troops move deeper inside. Pan of the exterior of the jail with infantry stood about, some keeping watch. Mortars going into action. Troops probing the ground for mines with bayonets. Close shot of bayonet used as probe. Infantry at the jail. More troops approach camera in double file along a road; an officer with pipe in his mouth (a photographer?) walks across shot. Reverse angle; troops walking away. A soldier looks at the firing slit of a Japanese bunker. Looking at a bunker. Long panning shot of Monywa showing a number of apparently quite substantial buildings in variously damaged condition.
  • Alternative Title: INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: MWY 76
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-01-20
  • Production Country: India
  • Production Details: Public Relations Directorate, India (Production sponsor) Indian Public Relations Film Unit (Production company) Singh, S (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Indian Army, 20th Indian Division (regiment/service) Indian Army, 32nd Indian Infantry Brigade (regiment/service) Indian Army, 14th Punjab Regiment, 9th Battalion (regiment/service) Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Monywa, Burma (geography) Shwebo 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event) British Army 1939-1945 (theme) Indian Army 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 585 ft; Running time: 7 mins
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    MWY 76

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    ABY 95 (BURMESE THANK 14TH ARMY COMMANDER AT MONYWA [Allocated Title]) FUB 75 (FALL OF MONYWA [Allocated Title])
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