24 Pounder Gun
24 Pounder Gun
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nice shot of an artillery crew shelling Japanese positions at Pinwe ... Royal Artillery ... November 1944 ... Pinwe, Burma
Allied Armoured Vehicles
Allied Armoured Vehicles
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nice shot of allied vehicles in the bush, apparently just after a Japanese ambush .. Burma
Allied Troops
Allied Troops
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infantrymen follow a tank through the undergrowth as they approach Meiktila February 1945 ... Burma
American Soldiers
American Soldiers
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US soldiers watch a large column of smoke rising from a Japanese dump during the invasion of the Marshall Islands January 1944 ... Namur, Marshall Islands
American Soldiers
American Soldiers
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US Soldiers advance through a devastated palm grove on Kwajalein Atoll. Note the burning installations in the background .Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
Bren Gun Carrier
Bren Gun Carrier
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a Bren Gun Carrier crosses a ditch in the Ngakyedauk Pass area ... ... February 1944 ... Burma
British Soldiers
British Soldiers
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two men wade through a waist deep river on the way to Mohnyin 36th Division ... December 1944 ... Burma
British soldiers
British soldiers
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CSM Watkins and Pte. A Lavell patrol the village of Bahe, behind is the Bahe Pagoda South Wales Borderers ... Burma
British soldiers
British soldiers
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Soldiers advancing though a banana grove in Burma . late 1944 ... Burma
Chindits
Chindits
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two of Wingate's Chindits L/Sgt Leslie Flowers and Pte. William Crowhurst look out of an aircraft window as they are flown out of the jungle in an audacious rescue mission 1943 ... Burma
Chinese Anti Aircraft Gunner
Chinese Anti Aircraft Gunner
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nice close up of Chinese AA gunners with their Oerlikon cannon in the Mediterranean theatre ...
Chinese Soldier
Chinese Soldier
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a nice photo of a Chinese soldier running through the undergrowth ... ... Burma
Chinese Troops
Chinese Troops
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nice close up of Chinese troops marching through a town ... China
Chinese troops
Chinese troops
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Chinese troops receiving instruction on an anti aircraft machine gun ... ... China
Chinese troops
Chinese troops
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poor quality snap of Chinese soldiers in action in the battle for Changteh ... China ...
Coolies Refuelling
Coolies Refuelling
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Indian 'coolies' prepare fuel drums for the arrival of 70 Sqn Valentias Gaya, India?
Douglas DC-3 Dakota
Douglas DC-3 Dakota
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DC-3s fly in low to drop supplies to the cut off 7th Division. Note the DC-3 in the distance ... early 1944 ... Burma
General Shang Chen
General Shang Chen
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Shang Chen is shown a machine gun during a tour of the Malay Peninsular ... Malaya
Gurkha Soldiers
Gurkha Soldiers
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Gurkha soldiers receive a last minute briefing before going off on patrol.. 14th Army ... February 1944 ... Burma
Indian Anti Aircraft Crew
Indian Anti Aircraft Crew
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an Indian anti-aircraft gun crew fire their Bofors in a practice shoot. Note the tank obstacles. Malaya
Indian Troops
Indian Troops
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men of the Punjab rifles follow a Sherman tank towards Meiktila ... Punjab Rifles ... February 1945 ... Burma
Indian troops
Indian troops
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Indian troops follow tanks into a Japanese held village ... May 1945 ... near Rangoon
Indian troops
Indian troops
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Indian reinforcements arrive by ship in Singapore Singapore
Japanese Bomber
Japanese Bomber
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a Japanese aircraft comes under fire from a US Navy task force ... ... 22nd February 1944 ... Saipan, Marianas
Japanese Gun Positions
Japanese Gun Positions
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low level shot of abandoned Japanese gun emplacements near Rangoon ... .. May 1945 ... Rangoon, Burma
Japanese Mini Submarine
Japanese Mini Submarine
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a beached and wrecked two man submarine after being rammed, shelled and depth charged ... Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Japanese POW
Japanese POW
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a Japanese sniper is led through a wrecked village just outside Pegu, 50 miles north of Rangoon... Burma
Japanese POW
Japanese POW
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a Japanese soldier surrenders to an Allied soldier of a 7th Division Patrol ... 1944 ... Arakan
Japanese Tank and crew
Japanese Tank and crew
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two Japanese tank crew lie dead beside their wrecked tank ... Malaya
Landing Craft
Landing Craft
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New Zealand troops unloading landing craft on a Pacific island ... February 1944 ... Pacific Theatre
Landing Craft
Landing Craft
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the second wave of New Zealand troops land at Vella Lavella in the Solomons ... Solomon Islands
Mingaladon Airfield
Mingaladon Airfield
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smoke rises from the airfield after a Japanese raid . 1942 ... Mingaladon, Burma
Pacific Convoy
Pacific Convoy
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Convoy. SUPPLY LINE - Photographed from the deck of a Coast Guard manned combat transport, this parade of transports and cargo ships is symbolic of America's far-flung supply line in the Pacific
Pacific War
Pacific War
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In the middle distance a Japanese plane forced down almost to water level by the ships anti aircraft guns. Five Japanese aircraft were shot down during this attack on aircraft carriers of the British Pacific Fleet. Issued July 1945
Parachute Supplies
Parachute Supplies
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Pte John Bache from Somerset and Sgt W Meadows of Middlesborough retrieve air dropped supplies ... . 7th Division ... February 1944 ... Burma
Parachute Supply Drop
Parachute Supply Drop
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an unusual shot of parachute supplies being dropped to supply Tito's forces in the mountains December 1944 ... Yugoslavia
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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a general view of Pearl Harbor before the Japanese attack of 1941 ... .. 1941 ... Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
PT Boat
PT Boat
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PT Boat gun turret, Hawaii 1942
Rangoon
Rangoon
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an aerial view of Rangoon showing the Schwedagon Pagoda, taken from a 70 Sqn Valentia .. 1937 ... Rangoon, Burma
Rangoon
Rangoon
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an aerial view of Rangoon showing the Schwedagon Pagoda, taken from a 70 Sqn Valentia 1937 ... Rangoon, Burma
Singapore
Singapore
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an elevated shot of buildings in Singapore before the Japanese arrived
Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal
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a view of the Taj Mahal taken from a 70 Sqn Valentia 70 Sqn ... 1937
Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal
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a view of the Taj Mahal taken from a 70 Sqn Valentia 70 Sqn ... 1937
Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal
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a view of the Taj Mahal taken from a 70 Sqn Valentia . 70 Sqn ... 1937 ... India
Training Chinese cadets
Training Chinese cadets
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Sky Harbour Airport Phoenix, March 1942, Chinese cadets
US Soldiers
US Soldiers
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two Marine Machine Gunners relax after a 24 hour battle with the Japanese forces on Namur . Marine Corps ... January 1944 ... Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
Wounded Airman
Wounded Airman
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Wounded Airman. November, 1943, Pacific - Crewmen lifting Kenneth Bratton out of the turret of a TBF on the USS SARATOGA after a raid on Rabaul.