During the approach to the city of Mandalay (Upper Burma), British troops closed in on the Japanese who were strongly entrenched near the area of the River Mu (Burma). These soldiers keep watch on Japanese positions only 400 yards away; January, 1945.


Observing Japanese positions

British Army Pvt. Watkins of the 9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, aims his Bren gun from a dugout in the garden of a house in the town of Gangelt, on the Dutch-German border. The foliage surrounding him is mostly taken from indoor potted plants; 17 December 1944.

On guard with a Bren gun

A 3-inch mortar team of the British 36th Infantry Division in action against the Japanese in north-eastern Burma; February 1945.