Title:SCENES FOLLOWING LIBERATION OF RANGOON AND VIEWS OF RANGOON DOCKS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 250
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes after the reoccupation of Rangoon including a Muslim parade, troops marching, captured Japanese weaponry and views of Rangoon docks.
Description: A civilian procession staged by Rangoon's Islamic population; they carry flags including the British Union flag and a flag bearing the Islamic crescent and star. Captured Japanese weapons including a Dutch Madsen light machine gun, a number of basket-hilted short sabres, bolt-action carbines, a Type 89 Grenade Discharger ('knee mortar') and a quantity of ammunition, some of it on long stripper clips for use with machine guns. A body of troops marching through Rangoon with the spire of Shwedagon Pagoda in the background. Scenes of devastation at Rangoon docks. A cargo net, lowered from a berthed ship, sets down supplies on the dockside. Coils of wire are unloaded. Men at work unloading supplies; most appear to be tins of petrol. More views of the devastated dockside.
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)
Brown, T V (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Indian Army, 26th Indian Division (regiment/service)
Japanese Forces, Burma National Army (regiment/service)
Indian National Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Rangoon, Burma (geography)
Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Liberation of Rangoon 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
JFU 258 (ENGINEERS OVERHAUL JAPANESE ARMS [Allocated Title])
JFU 297 (USE OF FLOATING DOCKS AT RANGOON [Allocated Title])
ABY 125 (THE RAF IN RANGOON [Allocated Title])
JFU 276 (SUPREMO VISITS RANGOON [Allocated Title])
Art.IWM ART LD 5529 (Rangoon : May 1945, a British merchant ship unloading cargo against a background of RAF bomb damage)
JIN 69 (REBUILDING AND REHABILITATION OF RANGOON [Allocated Title])
