1944 BURMA: Fighting between British and Japanese soldiers in jungle

Date: 17th January 1944

Location: BURMA

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

SLATE INFORMATION: LORD LOUIS ALL SET TO OUST JAPS

BURMA:

GV pan Burma jungle. SV O.P. post giving orders to fire. LV mountain guns firing. CU Gurkhas levelling gun. SV gun fires. GBV British troops moving forwards under fire towards jungle and firing at Japanese sniper in tree. SV dead Japanese sniper in tree. LV British troops in jungle fixing mortars, under camouflage. CU mortar firing. LV mortar shell exploding and bringing down a tree. SBV British troops through' jungle one firing tommy gun. CU dead Japanese soldier. LV guns fire from under camouflage. GV shell exploding in jungle bushes. LV troops running through jungle and trees. SV dead Japanese soldier. CU another dead Japanese soldier lying on his face. LV British troops approaching Japanese soldier fox hole. CU British soldier looking at dead Japanese soldiers in hole. GV British troops attacking village and shell bursting on village. LV officer signals and men move forward to attack village. GV British troops running into village.

GOOD SCENES.

GV explosion in jungle. SBV British troops firing gun. GV British troops advancing through jungle. GV British troops in jungle firing mortars. GV large explosion in bushes. LV British troops with mules carrying equipment through jungle. SV British troops towards with mules. GBV British troops advancing attacking a village. SV British soldiers passing camera with guns. LBV British soldiers advancing through jungle with guns. LV through trees of troops advancing through jungle. SV group of British troops running round Japanese soldier fox-hole - pull dead Japanese soldier out and search him. SBV British troops running past camera through jungle. GBV British troops through jungle and explosions. GV explosions in trees and bushes. SV British troops in camouflage at look-out post. SBV British troops fire gun. SSV British troops fire gun. SV in bushes of mortar gun exploding pan over to another gun under camouflage firing. GV explosions in jungle. GV another explosion in trees. SV three British soldiers firing mortar gun. LSV British troops advance through jungle and one of them is hit.

Military - Active; Indigenous People; Ethnic Minorities; Lord Louis Mountbatten (Prince Louis of Battenburg), Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), British Empire; World War II in the Far East

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