1942 BURMA: British troops fight rearguard action against Japanese forces

Date: 28th May 1942

Location: BURMA

Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

BURMA (MYANMAR):

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Sign 'Advance Headquarters Entrance'

Headquarters military staff at conference, close ups of five soldiers seated together

3rd Colonial Frontier Force on jungle patrol, Commanding Officer J.O.V. Edwards leading Burmese troops approaching jungle

Edwards leading Burmese troops into jungle

Various of members of British Army Brigade of Gurkhas away into jungle, running thru jungle as cutting down trees with Kukri knives

Gurka soldier with fixed bayonet patrolling through jungle

Japanese fighter planes flying overhead

General view of columns of smoke from village

Japanese fighter plane flying thru overhead

Black smoke billowing from behind trees

Two Japanese fighter planes weaving in sky

Billowing smoke over town, trees in foreground

Japanese plane loops and dives down

Bombs dropping and exploding close to camera

Columns of smoke and fire over town, trees in foreground

NIGHT

Various of buildings and trees on fire (blazing)

DAY

Town razed to ground after Japanese attack, rubble over ground TRACK FORWARDS

Bullock carts with refugees turning off road in fields

Long line of refugees in road TRACK FORWARDS

Close up of little girl and woman (refugees) in cart

Various of refugees

Railway in No Man's Land PAN Gloucester Regiment troops (soldiers) in trench in railway

Troops with rifles in trench next to Commanding officer

Close up of Commanding Office

Bren carrier with soldiers thru jungle

Bren carrier driving thru jungle TRACK FORWARDS

Bren carrier along then soldiers out of carrier

Victor Philatoff (Russian soldier fighting with British Army) posing

Antitank crew in jungle with gun

Arthur Toghill (British soldier from Bristol) laughing with Jack Godwin (British soldier from Cirencester PAN gun

Ttwo lorries with mortars

Officer looks thru field glasses

Enemy position in trees and bushes

British soldiers firing mortars from three lorries

Shell bursts on enemy positions amongst trees

Lieutenant Christenson giving order to fire

Soldiers firing mortars from three lorries

Shell exploding in trees and bushes

Gloucester Regiment advancing

Soldier fires mortar

Explosion on side of railway track

Maurice Ford (News reporter) running along with camera

Gloucesters across railway line

Various of British troops making house to house search in village

British soldier runs with tommy gun to side of building

Various of soldiers firing guns and searching between buildings

Troops climbing into lorry and smiling at camera

Lorry away as soldiers wave

Sunset over Burma with palm tree silhouetted in the foreground

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