Lost Footsteps
Lost Footsteps
British Patrol in Rangoon
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May 1945

British Patrol in Rangoon

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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.

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