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Indian troops freed from Japanese by U.S. troops on Los Negros. Sikhs, Indian soldiers, eat hungrily of U.S. Army field rations after they were freed from Japanese captivity by American forces who occupied Los Negros, island in the Admiralty group of the Southwest Pacific. The liberated Indians tell American soldiers how they were transported to the island outpost and forced to build enemy airfields ...

Liberated indian troops aid allied on New Guinea. Sikhs, indian troops freed from the Japanese by U.S. forces which landed on the northern coast of New Guinea, join other Allied soldiers in battling treacherous mud on a road leading inland from the town of Hollandia. U.S. amphibious forces wich pushed ashore on April 22, 1944, near Hollandia and at Aitape, rescued from the japanese, 707 Allied prisoners ...

With the Indian troops in Egypt. Bugle-call within sight of the Pyramids. A bugler of the Indian forces encamped within sight of the Pyramids in Egypt sounding a call. These men were the first of the Empire troops to arrive in the Middle East and take up their war stations.

' Burma. New Arakan Landing Takes 15th Indian Corps To Taungup. On March 13th troops of the 15th Indian Division supported by fighter bombers and the Navy, completely surprised the Japanese by landing eight miles up the Ma-Chiang, near the village of Latpan. The troops at once began to move down the coastal road towards Taungup 42 miles to the south, the last Japanese coastal supply base in the Arakan, ...

Workers of India unpack U.S. fighter plane at Ceylon. Indian workers uncrate a U.S. Corsair fighter plane for assembly at a base of the British Fleet Air Arm in Ceylon, India. India's homefront is not only supporting the Allied drive for the early defeat of the enemy, but has supplied 2,000,000 troops to fight the enemy on many battlefronts. The Indian Army is the largest volunteer fighting force in ...

American soldiers liberate sikh troops in pacific Indian Soldiers of the Sikh troops liberated when General Douglas MacArthur's forces invaded the Admiralty Islands get acquanted with American soldiers at an Allied base in New Guinea. The indian soldiers, captured enemy into service as laborers in the Admialties.

U.S. and British carriers combining forces to smash Jap East Indies Base. A combined task force of U.S. and Britsh aircraft carries, along with other Allied warships, struck a heavy blow at the Japanese base of Sabang in nothern Sumatra on April 19, 1944. First major blow struck by the Britsh Eastern Naval forces in the Indian Ocean since the fall of Singapore, the raid left the enemy stronghold in ...

U.S. and British carriers combining forces to smash Jap East Indies Base. A combined task force of U.S. and Britsh aircraft carries, along with other Allied warships, struck a heavy blow at the Japanese base of Sabang in nothern Sumatra on April 19, 1944. First major blow struck by the Britsh Eastern Naval forces in the Indian Ocean since the fall of Singapore, the raid left the enemy stronghold in ...

First photos show U.S. and British carriers combining forces to smash Jap. East Indies Base. A combined taks force of U.S. and British aircraft carriers, along with other Allied warships, struck a heavy blow at the Japanese base of Sabang in northern Sumatra on April 19, 1944. First major blow struck by the British Eastern Naval forces in the Indian Ocean since the fall of Singapor, the raid left the ...

Opruimen van een wegblokkade tijdens de bevrijdingsacties van de Britse troepen. ARMY FILM AND PHOTO SECTION, SEAC. DOPE SHEET SE 5893-5905. Dec.45. British troops open the Semarang-Ambarawa road to liberate Dutch women and children.... On the last day of November British troops of the 49the Brigade succeeded in opening the Semarang-Ambarawa road and escorted Dutch R.A.P.W.I. personnel to Banjoebiroe ...

Britisch troops ensure food supplies for Java. Despite dock strikes in Australia and elsewhere, there is considerable activity at Batavia, chief harbour of the Indonesian ..... centre. Guarded by British and Indian troops, essential food supplies are being landed and distributed. Among the British forces at present on duty in Java are men on the Seaforth Highlanders. Urgently needed supplies of flour ...

Van de Nederlandse strijdkrachten telde de marine de meeste mensen. In tegenstelling tot de landmacht was de marine er begin mei 1940 in geslaagd een aanzienlijk deel van personeel en materieel uit Nederland te evacueren. Daarnaast bevond zich in de Indische wateren het marinesmaldeel dat belast was met de verdediging van de archipel. Naast het escorteren van konvooien hebben Nederlandse marineschepen ...