Title:JAPANESE SURRENDER OF SWORDS AT KUALA LUMPUR AIRFIELD [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JIN 119
Other titles:INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: At an airfield near Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, thousands of Japanese troops surrender their weapons to 25th Indian Division while the officers surrender their swords.
Description: At an airfield near Kuala Lumpur three Indian officers, two of them Sikhs, standing amongst piles of Japanese equipment and examining some Japanese swords. Wide shot showing a large body of Japanese troops on parade. Sikh officer examining a pair of Japanese binoculars with perhaps sixty more pairs in leather cases behind him. Wide shot with troops in background and surrendered arms (machine guns?) in the midground. A Japanese officer, wearing a white armband, approaches the senior British officer, Brigadier Bernard Gerty, and salutes (shot a bit wobbly). Looking towards Gerty with the Japanese officer and his interpreter in the foreground below him (back to camera). Gerty speaks to the Japanese officer. Wide shot; Japanese officers are made to run. The first Japanese officer unfastens his sword and lays it on the ground, followed by scores of his subordinates. All around stand Indian soldiers with rifles at the ready. Looking down at the growing mass of surrendered swords on the ground. Japanese troops are searched by Indian troops of 25th Indian Division.
Alternative Title:INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Public Relations Directorate, India (Production sponsor)
Indian Public Relations Film Unit (Production company)
Hayat, A R (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Gerty, Bernard Charles Hamilton (person)
Indian Army, 25th Indian Division (regiment/service)
IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY (regiment/service)
Keywords: British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
Indian Army 1939-1945 (theme)
Surrender of Japanese Forces 1945, Malaya, Second World War (event)
JFU 373 (LIEUTENANT-GENERAL ROBERTS ADDRESSES FREED PRISONERS OF WAR; MASS SURRENDER OF JAPANESE AT KUALA LUMPUR [Allocated Title])
JIN 122 (JAPANESE SURRENDER PARADE AT BEDOR IN PERAK, MALAYA [Allocated Title])
