April 5, 2024
Lot of 8 orig. 1945 WWII photos of the Battle for Burma
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Accepting bids for a lot of 8 1945 press photos relating to the Battle for Burma. Each photos is approximately 8 by 10 inches, and all are so-calledd 'Official British Photos' taken by British armed forces photographers at the front. These were formerly in thepossession of long-defunct Washington D.C. newspaper, theWashington Star, which I think was then called the Washington Evening Star. The gentleman I bought these from worked at the newspaper and saved these from the trash when the paper decided to clean house some years after the war. According to him, the newspaper, as well as other local news organisations, received a much wider variety of press/propaganda photos than their counterparts around the country due to their close proximity to the Department of War/War Information in Washington D.C... hence, these and other photographs from this spectacular collection I will list in coming weeks may be quite rare.Crisp, vivid photographs have been treated kindly over the years. Some age warp, as to be expected from images this size and age. All have descriptions on the back, which give a thorough description of the action on the front.T are several photographs of Rangoon, one of a captured railway used by the 14th Army, one of Naik Hazrat Gul, a Khattak soldier, who killed three Japanese soldiers in a trench, one of the SS Ontario
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