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1942 The Burma Campaign continues
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3:27Now PlayingDate: 21st May 1942
Location: Burma
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: The Far East Front, Burma, Action in Tharrawaddy
BURMA: Myanmar: Tharrawaddy:
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ALEXANDER, General W.Wavell at Chinese Burma frontier also Gen.Tu Lee Ming
BURMA. Petrols in Tharrawaddy Sector..disperse Jap patrol w.light automatics & rifle fire.. camouflaged troops..passing Pagoda..murdered Indian refugees..Indian troops w.mountain battery..Gen.Wavell & Gen.Alexander G.O.C. at China front w.Gen.Tu Lee Ming..Chinese patrol..blazing petrol dumps & villages, also funeral pyre..dead cattle, dejected survivors..homeless Burmese under improvised shelters
CHINA Gen. Tu Lee Ming met by Gens. Wavell & Alexander at Burma China frontier..Chinese patrols north of Tuongoo
MILITARY BRITISH. K.O.Y.L.I.patrol in Burma..pass Pagoda..Indian troops..Gen.Wavell & Alexander G.O.C.Burma at China front w.Gen.Tu Lee Ming.
MING, Gen. Tu Lee (Chinese).
PAGODA Br patrol passes one in Burma
SURVIVORS. Burmese villagers after Jap bombing
WAVELL, General. W.Gen. Alexander G.O.C. Burma & Gen. Tu Lee Ming at Chinese Burma frontier
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World War II, World War 2, WWII, Second World War, war, infantry, rifle, machine gun, fire, firing, assault, light arms, Empire Army, Indian Army, Empire forces, cavalry
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