NAM.1989-04-116-3033-1

Eleven photographs of operations during Jan 1945. Photographs show Japanese mines safely lifted by Engineers after they had been located by Commandos the night prior to the landing on Ramree Island; Sherman tanks of 25th Indian Division advance after landing on the Myebon Peninsula; first ambulance of 46 (Indian) Field Ambulance, Indian Army Medical Corps to land on Ramree Island; vehicles of 4 Indian Infantry Bde coming ashore with second wave of attack on Ramree Island, 21 Jan 1945; Signal ratings of the Royal Indian Navy on shore with 3 Commando Brigade on the Kangaw beachhead; Japanese prisoners taken during the attack on Ramree Island, the one wearing glasses was a doctor; Japanese doctor captured on Ramree Island who had been educated in the USA and England; platoon of 1st / 18th Royal Garhwal (?) Rifles (71st Indian Bde, 26th Indian Division) about to attack a Japanese position, the rifleman in the centre foreground has thrown a phosphorous smoke grenade; Landing Craft Assault used by 2nd Bn Green Howards for the landing at Letpadan; having landed in a swamp area movement of transport presented problems; aerial view of Maungdaw / Buthidaung road showing the entrance to the ‘Western Tunnel’. From a collection of 563 loose photographs from the Burma Memorial Collection of Maj James Allan; associated with World War Two, Far East (1941-1945).

World War Two, Far East (1941-1945)