Raids On Rangoon (1942)

Titles read: “RAIDS ON RANGOON“. Rangoon, Burma. Various shots of Tomahawk fighter planes being prepared for takeoff by American volunteer pilots. The noses of the aeroplanes are decorated to look like sharks. Enemy wreckage around Rangoon, victims of the Tomahawks. M/S bombed building in Rangoon. At Insein Station near Rangoon a refugee train pulls in bringing Indian families returning from Japanese blitzed areas. Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, Burma Governor (and former Minister of Food) is on hand to receive them. He talks to a man whose wife was killed in a raid. Brief shots of the Rangoon volunteers who run the fire service. M/S of a street in Rangoon. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more tha