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May 1945
British Patrol in Rangoon
This picture, taken in May, 1945, shows troops of the British Fourteenth Army (likely 17th Indian Division) patrolling Rangoon just days after the Japanese retreat. The war-damaged Reserve Bank of India (later Central Bank) is in the background. A closer look at the jeep shows three Indian soldiers as well as a British soldier reading a map; he may have worked out that he is on Merchant Street heading west past Sule Pagoda Road.