- Title: The Burma Campaign continues
- Date: 21st May 1942
- Summary: SLATE INFORMATION: The Far East Front, Burma, Action in Tharrawaddy BURMA: Myanmar: Tharrawaddy: EXT ALEXANDER, General W.Wavell at Chinese Burma frontier also Gen.Tu Lee Ming BURMA. Petrols in Tharrawaddy Sector..disperse Jap patrol w.light automatics & rifle fire.. camouflaged troops..passing Pagoda..murdered Indian refugees..Indian troops w.mountain battery..Gen.Wavell & Gen.Alexander G.O.C. at China front w.Gen.Tu Lee Ming..Chinese patrol..blazing petrol dumps & villages, also funeral pyre..dead cattle, dejected survivors..homeless Burmese under improvised shelters CHINA Gen. Tu Lee Ming met by Gens. Wavell & Alexander at Burma China frontier..Chinese patrols north of Tuongoo MILITARY BRITISH. K.O.Y.L.I.patrol in Burma..pass Pagoda..Indian troops..Gen.Wavell & Alexander G.O.C.Burma at China front w.Gen.Tu Lee Ming. MING, Gen. Tu Lee (Chinese). PAGODA Br patrol passes one in Burma SURVIVORS. Burmese villagers after Jap bombing WAVELL, General. W.Gen. Alexander G.O.C. Burma & Gen. Tu Lee Ming at Chinese Burma frontier Military - Active World War II, World War 2, WWII, Second World War, war, infantry, rifle, machine gun, fire, firing, assault, light arms, Empire Army, Indian Army, Empire forces, cavalry
- Embargoed: 5th June 1942 14:00
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- Location: Burma
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- Country: Burma (Myanmar)
- Topics: War / Fighting,Defence / Military
- Reuters ID: LVA498SV13HR55P61EJQJWVXWJ9S
- Story Text: British Army regiment (The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) fights rearguard action in the Myanmar (formerly Burma) campaign against the Imperial Japanese Army
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