Gurkhas in the Far East
Gurkha troops of the British Commonwealth demonstrate jungle tactics for the camera, including booby traps and camouflage and concealment
Gurkhas in the Far East
Gurkha troops of the British Commonwealth demonstrate jungle tactics for the camera, including booby traps and camouflage and...
Chinese in Burma
In the Burmese jungle, a newly equipped and trained Chinese force join in the campaign against the Japanese...
The Forgotten Army
Andrew Roberts pays tribute to the men of the cosmopolitan Fourteenth Army, who fought a savage war against the Japanese in t...
Chinese army in India
A newly equipped Chinese force under Stillwell's command passes through a training course in India...
Latest news from Burma
Chiang Kai Shek arrives in Burma to meet British officials and discuss the conduct of the war...
The Forgotten Army
The Chindits and the Chinese battle against difficult terrain to defend Burma against the Japanese...
Allies capture Mandalay
Hiding in ancient pagodas and temples, the Japanese occupation of Mandalay is key to their stronghold in Burma. In what turne...
The Fourteenth Army's victory
Thousands of troops proudly parade through Rangoon to mark the victory of the Fourteenth Army against the Japanese in Burma...
Japanese trapped at Imphal
Hiding out in the jungle, the Japanese are surrounded in Imphal...
Invasion scenes from the Far East
Bullets and bombs hail down on the Japanese thick and fast, who are forced to retreat from Imphal and Kohima. Allied tanks ro...
Driving out the Japanese
In 1944 Japanese dreams of conquest in India are shattered by the advance of the Fourteenth Army. Fleeing in a hurry, the Jap...
Battle in Burma
The course of war in Burma has swung against the Japanese, particularly with the construction of the Ledo Road...
Action in Burma
Its guerrilla warfare in Burma as the Allied infantry advance through the jungle, 1944...
Potsdam Conference
Churchill, Truman, Stalin and later Attlee meet at Potsdam just before the war's close, where the final stages of battle are ...
Field Marshal Slim
Dr Simon Trew gives his view on whether Slim was the best British general of the Second World War...
The road to Mandalay
After years of fighting in Burma, the Japanese are now in retreat. Two major obstacles greet the Fourteenth Army; the mountai...
The British in Burma
Dr Duncan Anderson describes conditions in the Burma campaign, and the enormous influence that one man had upon Britsh fortun...
Liberation
Fred Seiker, a Dutch engineer captured on Java and made to work the Thai-Burma railroad, recalls the moment of his liberation...
