British and Indian combat troops recapture Mandalay, Burma after three years of Japanese occupation during World War II. Blast in the city. A series of blasts occur in the city. A Burmese temple in the fore ground. Troop in prone position fire rifle. Troops fire artillery. Military tanks advance in the city, temple in the background. The capture of Fort Dufferin (present day Mandalay Palace) from the Japanese. Army trucks advance in the city. Troops advance in a jeep. Japanese prisoners captured and brought to British camp. Burmese temple with a statue of an elephant and a dragon.
Allied Expeditionary Forces in Siberia, Russia during World War I. A British Army Officer poses for cameraman outside a wooden building. Still photographer asks him to pose again. A British Naval Officer is also photographed, standing next to the Army Officer.
Wrecked British plane in Germany. Several U.S. airmen around a wrecked British Halifax III aircraft on ground. B-24 Liberator plane on a runway in the background.
From "The Battle of the Somme." British Army at the Battle of Somme in France during World War 1. British infantry and cavalry units wait to move forward and get into trenches near Fricourt Mametz in France. At Bray platoons of Buff, Bedford, Suffolk and a battalion of Royal Welish Fusiliers lined up and march forward. Cavalry units also move forward. French farmers in fields, they tend the artillery horses and make them drink water. A General stands with a live fox in his arms (or possibly a slender dog), as soldiers stand beside and behind him in the background.
British Army at the Battle of Somme in France during World War 1. A Divisional General mounted on a horse addresses the Lancashire Fusiliers and Royal fusiliers and a Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment before the Battle of the Somme in France. British gunners firing 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns at very low elevation (almost point blank direct fire). As the guns fire, the recoil drives them back considerably on their heavy wheels, which are arrested by chocks.
British troops in World War 1 Battle of the Somme, are seen at a huge stockpile of mortar shells called "Plum Puddings" that are most effective in smashing German barbed wire entanglements. Soldiers carrying them from the pile as quartermasters make a count of them. British Troops, in a well protected dugout, loading a 2 inch trench mortar with attached periscope post and "Plum Pudding" shell atop. They afix the fuse and crawl into the dugout, away from the mortar and fire it remotely with a cord. They repeat the process.
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