Title:5TH INDIAN DIVISION ADVANCING NEAR KENNEDY PEAK [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 124
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: 5th Indian Division advance on Japanese positions around Kennedy Peak, near Tiddim, Burma.
Description: British soldiers and supplies wait on a rough road. A jeep and trailer come along the road; there is a steep drop on one side of the road and the jeep looks perilously close to the edge. A truck comes towards camera. British troops with tin hats on and carrying their Lee Enfield rifles move through the jungle. (This sequence is very dark). A destroyed Japanese Ha-Go tank is passed by British soldiers. 3-inch mortars are fired by the men of 351st Battery 56th Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery on Japanese positions. Men look at debris as they rest in the jungle (debris is hard to identify but could possibly be a crashed plane). Long shot of a tank on the road ahead. Long shot of Japanese bunkers on a hillside.
Two Indian soldiers man, and fire, a Vickers machine gun in heavy jungle. A mortar is fired. Men of 351st Battery 56th Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery sit around drinking and eating. RAF Hawker Hurricane fighter-bombers bomb a hilltop; explosions can be seen. Bomb sites on the hill; undergrowth has been destroyed. Hurribombers on more bomb runs and explosions are visible. An M3 General Grant tank is stopped at the corner of a road and fires several times.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
SEAC Film Unit (Production company)
Hewit, J R (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Indian Army, 5th Indian Division (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery, 351st Anti-Tank Battery (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery, 56th Anti-Tank Regiment (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 9th Jat Regiment, 3rd Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: Tiddim, Burma (geography)
Kennedy Peak, Burma (geography)
Tiddim Road 1944, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
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JFU 117 (TIDDIM OPERATIONS BY 5TH INDIAN DIVISION [Allocated Title])
JFU 118 (TIDDIM VILLAGE OCCUPIED BY 5TH INDIAN DIVISION [Allocated Title])
JFU 120 (5TH INDIAN DIVISION ADVANCE THROUGH TIDDIM TO KENNEDY PEAK [Allocated Title])
JFU 121 (5TH INDIAN DIVISION ADVANCE BEYOND TIDDIM [Allocated Title])
JFU 123 (VARIOUS SCENES OF AN IMPROVISED KITCHEN AND POST OFFICE NEAR TIDDIM [Allocated Title])
JFU 147 (MUDDY CONDITIONS ON THE TIDDIM ROAD [Allocated Title])
JFU 160 (ATTACK ON KENNEDY PEAK BY 5TH INDIAN DIVISION [Allocated Title])
JFU 180 (JAPANESE RETREAT FROM KHA KHONOU AT MILESTONE 24 TO THE KUKI HILLS AT MILESTONE 33 [Allocated Title])
JFU 184 (5TH INDIAN DIVISION'S ADVANCE ON TIDDIM - MILESTONE 138 TO MILESTONE 159 [Allocated Title])
JFU 189 (CASUALTY EVACUATION FROM LIGHT AIRSTRIP AT SAIZANG [Allocated Title])
JFU 191 (MEN OF THE PUNJAB REGIMENT ON PATROL AND STRETCHER BEARERS AT WORK [Allocated Title])
JFU 195 (INDIAN ENGINEER WORKSHOP AND SCENES ALONG THE TIDDIM ROAD [Allocated Title])
JFU 208 (VARIOUS SCENES OF 5TH INDIAN DIVISION AT KALEMYO [Allocated Title])