NORTHERN BURMA: ADVANCE ON PINWE [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: NORTHERN BURMA: ADVANCE ON PINWE [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: FUB 7
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: In the 'Railway Corridor' of northern Burma, troops of 36th Division advance on Pinwe.
  • Description: Reel 1: Various angles of a 25-pounder field gun being fired. British troops of 10th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment moving through jungle. Down a track. Wounded man on a stretcher. More of men moving through jungle, giving a good impression of the thick vegetation. Men resting on a bank by a track. They resume the march. US Tenth Air Force P-47s overhead. Wounded British soldier on a jeep ambulance. British troops digging in. Digging in with a Vickers machine gun ready nearby. Brigadier Aslett (commander, 72 Indian Infantry Brigade) in a jeep. More digging. A wounded British soldier has his arm dressed. Another wounded has his wrist bandaged. A British soldier of 10th Gloucesters, killed in action by a Japanese hand grenade while defending his battalion's perimeter, is buried in a service conducted by Father (Horace?) Relph, 72 Brigade Roman Catholic padre. Shots of the service before the grave is filled in. Dead Japanese soldier. Field conference; Brigadier Aslett speaks with Brigadier Stockwell (commander, 29 Brigade) Troops of 29 Brigade cross a stream. Crossing grassland. A field hospital, run by 60 Portable Surgical Hospital, US Army; Major C J Sprunk (commanding officer) operates on a British Army major, assisted by Captain C P Peck, and anaesthetist Captain D L Bashaw (seen administering chloroform?). British troops moving up. Troops (of 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers?) passing; some carry stretchers and they are watched by their commanding officer Lieutenant-Colonel Jones (?). Troops of 2nd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment cross a shallow stream; bullock carts laden with equipment follow. Troops of 1st Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers advancing through an area of shattered woodland as they enter Pinwe. Moving through undergrowth; an American soldier is present. An officer, identified on the dopesheet as Major (N E G ?) Morrogh-Ryan (battalion commander), with Captain Hare (company commander) and platoon commanders in Pinwe. Close-up of Ryan. Royal Scots Fusiliers crossing a bridge and climbing a hill. They enter the wreckage of Pinwe. A file of the Royal Scots led through Pinwe by Pipe Major J McMenemy. More shots of the piper. A soldier, cigarette in mouth, digging with his entrenching tool. Setting up a Vickers gun. Royal Welch moving. 'Pinwe' railway sign with wagon in background. Railway lines with two wrecked locomotives. High over the line (from a signal box?) pan as a jeep drives through an area of shattered trees. Reel 2: Gunners working on a 3.7-inch howitzer. Removing the sight. Covering the muzzle. Manhandling the gun to a waiting vehicle. Guns being towed. Guns unhitched and prepared for action. Aerial views, from an L-5 Sentinel light aeroplane, of the railway line with shell craters and crashed wagons. Air-to-air views of another Sentinel, serial 298846. Various views of a Vickers gun being fired.
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: FUB 7
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-11-22
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) SEAC Film Unit (Production company) Wishart, Basil Ferguson1919-09-191997-02-11Sergeant cameraman, No 9 Army Film and Photo Unit, later editor of the Shetland Times. Obituary see Herald Scotland, 13 February 1997. (Production individual) Miller, E E (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Aslett, Alfred Rimbault (person) Stockwell, Hugh Charles (person) British Army, 36th Division (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Artillery, 178th Field Regiment (regiment/service) United States Army Air Force, 10th Air Force (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Sussex Regiment, 9th Battalion (regiment/service) IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Namma, Burma (geography) Mawlu, Burma (geography) Pinwe, Burma (geography) Operations in Northern Burma 1943-1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage: 1305 ft; Running time: 15 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    FUB 7

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    MWY 214 (BRITISH TROOPS ON THE ROAD TO PINWE (AMERICAN CAMERAMAN) [Allocated Title]) MWY 215 (SHELLING OF PINWE (AMERICAN CAMERAMAN) [Allocated Title]) MWY 216 (FALL OF PINWE (AMERICAN CAMERAMAN) [Allocated Title]) MWY 217 (FALL OF PINWE: AERIAL FOOTAGE, CHINESE ARTILLERY AND JAPANESE PRISONER (AMERICAN CAMERAMAN) [Allocated Title]) MWY 218 (NEAR PINWE: INDIAN ENGINEERS SMALL ARMS PRACTICE AND BRIDGE REPAIRS (AMERICAN CAMERAMAN) [Allocated Title]) MWY 219 (NEAR PINWE: UNCOVERING JAPANESE MINES (AMERICAN CAMERAMAN) [Allocated Title])
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