Asia Collection (page 2)

RAF Beaufighters over Burma have been hitting hard and often at important Japanese supply and transport targets. Picture shows: A goods train between Thazi and Pyawbwe is attacked by a Beaufighter

A harmless looking farm cart trundling along a country road between Kyaukpadung and Poaywa was sighted by RAF Beaufighters flying overhead

Paddle steamers, camouflaged with cut vegetation in an attempt to merge them with the surroundings, are used by the Japanese as headquarters on some of the Burmese rivers

British troops have scored successes and are mopping up on the Imphal Ukhrul front. Advancing north from Imphal, capital of the border state of Manipur

Six officers and men of the Kings Regiment who accompanied Brigadier Wingate into Burma in 1943, were decorated by the Viceroy of India, Lord Wavell

Sergeant A. Beard of Briscoe Lane, Newton Heath, Manchester (left), with Private W. Pybis of Beacon Street, Liverpool, in full kit wading through a stream in the monsoon soaked jungle while going

Fighting their way out of a Japanese ambush on the Arakan front, seven Gurkha riflemen, accompanied by a five-year-old Bengali boy

Deceived by rumour, the villagers of Chantha near Ye U, in central Burma, made premature arrangements for the welcoming of Allied troops. The Mother Superior of the Convent organised

Lance Corporal C. G. Fowler and Company Quartermaster Sergeant Patey, of Reading
Lance Corporal C.G. Fowler and Company Quartermaster Sergeant Patey, of Reading, Berkshire, read their local newspaper, " The Reading Standard" during some down time while serving in India

Visit of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, to Rangoon, the capital city of Burma

Flying the Hump, the mountains which lie between India and China, is reputed to be one of the most exciting flights in the world

Picture taken December 1944 when British army troops of the 86th Division advanced from " Rail" Indaw and linked up with he 4th Corps near Banmauk

British patrol pass a Burmese farmer and oxen. 2nd August 1945

Radio telephonists at work in Meiktila. 1st April 1945

14th Army on the way to Mandalay. 20th February 1945

Canadians at their camp in Hong Kong. 17th December 1941

Soldiers in combat during Second World War, Burma. 13th February 1945

Allied troops make their way inland south of Rangoon. 18th May 1945

Miss O. Franklin, Matron of a British Naval hospital, in liberated Hong Kong. 13th September 1945

Red Cross in Hong Kong during Second World War. September 13th 1945

Recently some RAF officers visited a Roman Catholic community of Indians and Anglo-Indians in a Burmese village in a liberated area

Men of the Royal Corps of Signals who provided the land communications required to co-ordinate the air offensive which made possible the Allied victory in Burma

To maintenance units behind RAF forward airstrips in Burma come all types of aircraft needing repairs from Tigers to Thunderbolts

At the request of the military authorities in Burma sixteen African Chiefs were invited to tour Ceylon, India and the Burma Front to visit men of their tribes serving with the British Forces

In two attacks Allied heavy and medium bombers recently destroyed, a heavily fortified strongpoint at Ningthoukhong in Burma

Punjab troops act as firefighters on the Arakan front. Villages on the front suffer from enemy bombs and shellfire. Here Indians of the 16th Punjab Regiment help to extinguish a village fire

RAF Personnel, whose job it is to guard the forward airstrips on the Burma front, keep up to the mark with a periodical course in jungle warfare

The Battle of Kohima proved the turning point of the Japanese U-Go offensive into India in 1944 during the Second World War

Lieutenant A. Garwood, the commander of the Sherman tank, feeding an elephant with biscuits from the turret of his tank on the road at Taungtha, Burma, 14 April 1945

Reconstructing the Burma road near the Salween River during the Second world War. An American Army bulldozer and Chinese labourers carrying basket loads of crushed rocks

Allied troops use a jeep as a locomotive on the 37 mile railroad which runs from Mougang, Burma, northeast to Myitkinya. Both of these former Japanese supply bases, now in Allied hands

British troops at a forward position in the Burmese jungle, celebrate Christmas with tinned plum pudding an extra rations of beer and cigarettes

Details of a pipeline that will extend 2000 miles from Calcutta to Yunnan, South China were revealed by Lieutenant General Daniel I. Sultan, commander of US forces in the Burma-India theatre

The road from Imphal to Tamu in Burma cleared by British sappers. The road was previously only able to take heavy traffic as far as Palel at the feet of the Chin Hills

Soldiers of the British 36th Division in Burma during the Second World War. Picture shows Private Campion (Southport) being assisted by Sergeant Perry (Rock Ferry) and Private Grice (St. Helens)

A Valentine bridgelayer of the 3rd Independent Bridge Building Company, Royal Armoured Corps, spans a damaged bridge near Meiktila, Burma. 28 March 1945

A Bristol Blenheim Mark IV, V5589, of No. 113 Squadron RAF based at Asansol, India, veers out of control as it is shot down by Japanese fighters while carrying out a low-level bombing attack on two

Eighth Army soldiers Sepoy Sardara Singh of Slal Kat District, India and Sepoy Jaawant Singh of District Pattiola, India, both of Indian Division

Soldiers of the South Wales Borderers, part of the British Army 36th infantry division, make their way through the Burmese jungle under sniper fire during their advance on Mandalay

The village of Bishenpur, in Manipur State, India was the scene of heavy fighting until the Japanese were finally driven out of India on 17th August 1944. Now it is returning to normal

Fighting their way from station to station down the lonely single-track railway which is the only really passable track in the North Burma jungle country

Ground troops under Major General O. C. Wingate, since killed In a plane crash
Ground troops under Major General O.C. Wingate, since killed In a plane crash, carried out a successful surprise landing behind the Japanese lines in Burma

The success of the 14th. Army on the Arakan front in Burma owes a great deal to the remarkable feat of a South-East Asia Troops Carrier Command which supplied a whole division by air for 11 days

British and Indian paratroops were dropped near Rangoon, capital city of Burma on 1st May 1945 3before the sea and airborne attack on the town and port the next day

British and Indian troops who conclusively proved their superiority by giving the Japanese such a beating at Kohima have taken Tiddim, Burma whose capture was announced on 19th October 1944

Fifth Indian Divisions Advance on Tiddim. British and Indian troops who conclusively proved their superiority by giving the Japanese such a beating at Kohima have taken Tiddim

Beaufighter planes trike oil in Burma. Picture taken between Kyaukpadung and Popaywa. Burma. Picture taken circa 25th June 1944

Furthest RAF Bombing Raid on Burma front. Liberator bombers of Strategic Air Force of the Eastern Air Command fly over 2, 300 miles to bomb the newly built Japanese port of Khac Huagang in Southern

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