Burma Victory
Documentary about the Burma Campaign during World War Two, directed by Roy Boulting.
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"The background to this film can be told, in good part, by a short account of Admiral Mountbatten's part in the first years of WW2. In 1939, Lord Louis Mountbatten - a great grandson of Queen Victoria - was a serving Captain in the Royal Navy; he was Captain (D) commanding the fifth destroyer flotilla, personally commanding the destroyer HMS Kelly and taking her from the builders in August 1939. Mountbatten was one of the survivors when HMS Kelly was lost in the Battle for Crete on 23 May 1941. The story of HMS Kelly during the first twenty-one months of the war was told by Mountbatten&ap..."
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This film received its earliest documented telecasts in USA in New York City Saturday 30 April 1949 on WCBS (Channel 2) and in Los Angeles Thursday 15 September 1949 on KNBH (Channel 4).
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Documentary about the Burma Campaign during World War Two, directed by Roy Boulting.