ROYAL INDIAN NAVY LANDING CRAFT IN PYINWAN LANDINGS [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: ROYAL INDIAN NAVY LANDING CRAFT IN PYINWAN LANDINGS [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: JIN 30
  • Other titles: INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: At Pyinwan, in the Arakan coastal region of Burma, Royal Indian Navy landing craft are used to make an amphibious landing.
  • Description: Landing Craft Tank 2120 in a chaung. Beached landing craft being unloaded. Views from a Landing Craft Mechanised (LCM) heading up the chaung. On a beach a landing craft is unloaded by Indian troops. Chevrolet CMP driving off. Bulldozer is driven off a landing craft. Unloading oil drums. Two naval officers talking; one is shirtless and smoking a cigarette the other in battledress with a number of medal ribbons. Lorry reverses onto a landing craft. Other lorries reversed aboard and other stores being loaded. Views at sea with many other landing craft. Passing a small pagoda. Man signalling with semaphore. More views various craft on the chaung. Smoke rising in distance. Aircraft low overhead. Another shot of LCT 2120.
  • Alternative Title: INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: JIN 30
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-03-15
  • Production Country: India
  • Production Details: Indian Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) Indian Public Relations Film Unit (Production company) Lawrence (Signalman) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Indian Navy (regiment/service) Indian Army, 26th Indian Division (regiment/service) Indian Army, 4th Indian Infantry Brigade (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Arakan, Burma (geography) Third Arakan Campaign 1944-1945, 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: 301 ft; Running time: 4 mins
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    JIN 30

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    JIN 36 (LANDING CRAFT ON THE MA-I CHAUNG FOR LETPAN LANDINGS [Allocated Title]) JIN 27 (BOMBARDMENT BY HMS ESKIMO IN SUPPORT OF LANDINGS AT LETPAN [Allocated Title]) JIN 28 (2ND BATTALION 13TH FRONTIER FORCE RIFLES ADVANCING AT LETPAN [Allocated Title]) JIN 39 (NAVY ON LAND: BEACHED MOTOR LAUNCH AT KALIENDAUNG RIVER [Allocated Title])
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