Title:SHELLING OF PINWE (AMERICAN CAMERAMAN) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MWY 215
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: In northern Burma, an American cameraman films a barrage by C Troop, 122 Field Battery, 178th Field Regiment Royal Artillery (of 36th Division) in support the advance towards Pinwe.
Description: View of a camouflaged 25-pounder gun position in front of a treeline; the gun is fired. Further views of the gun. More views (various angles) of the 25-pounder being fired. Closer shots of the gunlayer at work. More shots of the gun in action. More of the gun in action. Seated man with map speaking on microphone.
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]
Production Details: SEAC Photo Unit (US) (Production company)
Leacock, RichardFamily origin: US (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, 36th Division (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery, 178th Field Regiment (regiment/service)
Keywords: Pinwe, Burma (geography)
Operations in Northern Burma 1943-1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
Indian Army 1939-1945 (theme)
FUB 6 (NORTHERN BURMA: 72ND BRIGADE ADVANCE ON NABA [Allocated Title])
FUB 7 (NORTHERN BURMA: ADVANCE ON PINWE [Allocated Title])
FUB 14 (NORTHERN BURMA: 36TH DIVISION GUNNERS DIG IN A 25-POUNDER AT PINWE [Allocated Title])
MWY 214 (BRITISH TROOPS ON THE ROAD TO PINWE (AMERICAN CAMERAMAN) [Allocated Title])
MWY 216 (FALL OF PINWE (AMERICAN CAMERAMAN) [Allocated Title])
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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])