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Wartime Archive of Reg Stone of Skelmanthorpe: Main Street with the Shwedagon Pagoda in the distance, Rangoon, Burma – Military jeeps entering Rangoon two weeks after its recapture.

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Title:Wartime Archive of Reg Stone of Skelmanthorpe: Main Street with the Shwedagon Pagoda in the distance, Rangoon, Burma – Military jeeps entering Rangoon two weeks after its recapture.
Date Period:June, 1945
Collection or Artist:Tolson Memorial Museum Collection / Photographer: Reg Stone
Further Information:

The Shwedagon pagoda lies to the west of Kandawgyi Lake on Singuttara Hill, dominating the skyline of the city.

The Pagoda was left remarkable untouched after the terrible bombings of 1945.

Rangoon (Yangon) was the former capital of Burma.

See image: K026475