Military Airplane B-29 of 444th Bombardment Group in flight from Military Air Bases Kharagpur and Kudhkundah, India. B-29 of 40th, 444th, 462nd and 468th Bombardment groups, 20th Bomber Command in practice flight. Three airplanes in flight. 11 airplanes fly in formation. 12 B-29 airplanes fly in formation. Aerial view of Kharagpur. (World War II period).
The British forces in India as they plan for their operations in Burma during World War II. (Royal Air Force) RAF pilots being briefed. Pilots seated on the ground. Officer explains them the plans on a board. A jeep and airplane parked on the airfield.
The British forces in India as they plan for their operations in Burma during World War II. Planes take off and encircle an airstrip. A plane lands at the airstrip. Crew members discuss on the airstrip. A plane in flight.
The British forces in India as they plan for their operations in Burma during World War II. Crew seated on the airfield. Plane parked in the background. They sit near the plane and pose. They erect tents on a field. A truck passes on the field. A man examines the teeth of a pilot. Women of the Red Cross serves meals to them.
The British forces along with the Chindits units in India as they plan for their operations in Burma during World War II. Planes parked on the airfield. Troops, equipment and pack animals being loaded into gliders and transports. Pilot embark onto the plane. Crew stands near the planes. The planes take off.
The United Kingdom shapes a new policy for withdrawing its colonial power from India and Egypt. Skyline of London, United Kingdom. The Palace of Westminster, serving as the meeting place of the British Parliament, seen from the River Thames (Parliament Square, London, SW1A 0AA). British Prime Minister Clement Attlee talking with other members of the British Parliament. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, looking down, with Prime Minister Attlee behind him. View of Simla, India. Sign in English and Indian says “SIMLA Height above sea 6848”. View of the Simla Viceregal Lodge, now known as the Rashtrapati Niwas (Boileauganj, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh 171005), the venue of the Simla Conference. Viceroy of India Lord Archibald Percival Wavell and British Indian politicians of the Indian National Congress and All-India Muslim League parties meet for the Simla Conference to discuss a plan for Indian self-government. A crowd of Muslim Indians, Sikhs, and Hindu Indians outside the Viceregal Lodge. Kalam Azad, the Indian National Congress Party President, arrives in the Viceregal Lodge by rickshaw. Jawaharlal “Pandit” Nehru, an Indian National Congress Party activist leader and future first Prime Minister of India, rides a piebald pony to the conference. The All-India Muslim League leader and future founder of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, arrives by car. Lord William Wedgwood Benn, the Viscount Stansgate and British Labour Party politician, and the British delegation meet with Egyptian Prime Minister Ismail Sidky Pasha and other politicians. Viscount Stansgate reads the announcement of British preparation to leave Egypt. Indians crowd outside the Viceregal Lodge in Simla, India. Rickshaw drivers sit near parked rickshaws. Indian leaders of the National Congress Party and the All-India Muslim League walk outside the Viceregal Lodge. Jawaharlal Nehru meets supporters. Indians showing support for Jawaharlal Nehru outside the Viceregal Lodge after the Simla Conference.
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