Title:ROYAL INDIAN NAVY SEARCH FOR JAPANESE STRAGGLERS AROUND RAMREE ISLAND [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JIN 25
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: A Royal Indian Navy motor launch, patrolling coastal rivers on Ramree Island off Burma, searches for Japanese stragglers with the aid of a captured Japanese medical officer.
Description: Onboard a Royal Indian Navy vessel patrolling a chaung (river or watercourse) in the Ramree area two officers, one British and one Indian, cross the deck. The two officers in discussion with two others. Approaching another motor launch. Panning view of a treeline in the distance. Two officers with binoculars. Continuing panning shot; reflections suggest the water is very still. An Indian sailor has a finger bandaged by a captured Japanese doctor. Local refugees. Their boat under tow. The Japanese officer speaking with officers and smoking a cigarette. Japanese officer with back to camera. A loudspeaker (being used to broadcast the Japanese officer's exhortations to surrender). Views of mangroves growing at water's edge (documentation suggests Japanese bodies are visible but they are not readily apparent). Another vessel. Japanese officer with a British officer who is smoking a pipe. Another view of the chaung. Loudspeaker. Local people on deck, with sailors standing by a 40mm gun and a figure (apparently a Japanese soldier who surrendered) asleep on the deck. Japanese with officers. Other vessel (landing craft?).
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Indian Army Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
Indian Army Film Unit (Production company)
Bella, D J (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Indian Navy (regiment/service)
IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY (regiment/service)
Keywords: Arakan, Burma (geography)
Ramree, Burma (geography)
Landings on Ramree island 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Third Arakan Campaign 1944-1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Combined Operations and Landing Craft 1940-1945 (theme)
Amphibious Warfare (theme)
JIN 14 (AMPHIBIOUS OPERATIONS AGAINST JAPANESE STRAGGLERS ON RAMREE ISLAND [Allocated Title])
JIN 26 (MINOR LANDING BY ROYAL INDIAN NAVY OF 1ST LINCOLNS TEN MILES SOUTH OF RAMREE TOWN [Allocated Title])
