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Pakokku, Burma. c. April 1945. Group portrait of military and medical personnel outside a hospital. Left to right: Air Marshal Sir Philip Joubert KCB CMG DSO, Deputy Chief of Staff, Information and Civil Affairs (centre), accompanied by Major General C. F. B. Pearce, Chief Civil Affairs Officer in Burma, and Sir Raibeart McDougall, Councillor to the Governor of Burma (extreme left), with sisters (Sister Sarah Bwe, second left) of the Burmese Military Nursing Service at one of the hospitals visited at Pakokku, the third city of Burma, after its liberation from the Japanese.
Pakokku, Burma. c. April 1945. Air Marshal Sir Philip Joubert KCB CMG DSO, Deputy Chief of Staff, Information and Civil Affairs, made a tour of Burmese liberated cities to talk with local civil affair
Rangoon, Burma. c. May 1945. Air Marshal Sir Keith R. Park, Allied Air Commander in Chief, South East Asia, landed at the docks watched by a crowd of Burmese onlookers to inspect Allied bomb damage to
Burma. c. January 1945. Padre Joseph Heaven of the RAF of Bromham Road Methodist Church, Bedford smiles at a Burmese baby girl in a village near Monywa where he found forty Burmese Christians who were
Sadaung, Burma. c. 1945. Two RAAF Spitfire pilots stop to watch some local women winnowing grain. Burmese temples are in the background.
Arakan, Burma. c. July 1944. Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) D. K. McDonald DFC of Kogarah, NSW (right centre, with hands on knees) describes the installation of a 500lb bomb beneath the mainplane of a Thun
Rangoon, Burma. 15 June 1945. A victory parade was held to celebrate the defeat of the Japanese armies. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, reads His Majesty The
