Tag: Far East Records and researchThe Free Thai Movement and the SOEMonday 16 August 2021Siam (present day Thailand) was one of the first countries in South East Asia...Records and researchThe British POWs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945Friday 4 September 2020When one considers the formal conclusion of the war against Japan 75 years ago,...Records and researchSoviet-Japan and the termination of the Second World WarWednesday 2 September 202075 years ago today, in the morning of Sunday 2 September 1945, the Japanese...Records and researchOperations which never happened (part 2): Operation Zipper and MailfistFriday 14 August 2020In the week leading up to VE Day in 1945, British and Indian forces...Archives and archivistsThe Archivists’ Guide to Film: The Bridge on the River KwaiThursday 13 August 2020Correspondence between film companies and the War Office turns up in a number of...Records and researchThe Forgotten Army: West African Troops in Burma, 1945Wednesday 12 August 2020They have been called the ‘Forgotten Army’ – the British Fourteenth Army who, in...Records and researchOperations which didn’t happen (part 1): British participation in the invasion of Japan, 1945Tuesday 11 August 2020Had the atomic bombs not been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulting in the...