AIR EVACUATION OF CASUALTIES FROM 154TH FIELD AMBULANCE IN NORTHERN BURMA [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: AIR EVACUATION OF CASUALTIES FROM 154TH FIELD AMBULANCE IN NORTHERN BURMA [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: JFU 159
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Scenes of Burmese civilians receiving medical treatment and air evacuation of British casualties from Mohnyin in northern Burma.
  • Description: At a dressing station men of 154th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, provide medical services to local Burmese civilians. A civilian has his foot bandaged. A mother and baby; a British medic probes the baby's mouth with a swab as the infant has been suffering from ulcers as a result of malnutrition. A powder is applied to a man's leg (antiseptic?). A man with a bandaged foot is carried on a litter by two others. Tent with medic at work. British stretcher bearers carrying a casualty. A United States Army Air Force (USAAF) light aeroplane. A British man, with a dressing on his face, is lifted down a flight of steps on a stretcher. A parked USAAF light aircraft with a number of men around it; a sign reads 'Airstrip 10mph'. Wounded man on a stretcher. Aircraft taking off. Aircraft in flight. A train passes across shot; one carriage is marked with the insignia of 36th Division (two overlapping rings) and named 'Whitehorse Inn'. A man, lying on a stretcher in the back of a light aircraft, looks briefly at the camera. The propeller is swung several times. The aircraft taxis away. An ambulance (Fordson?) marked 'United States Army' passes camera. A stretcher case is put aboard an aircraft. View down an airstrip with an aircraft in the distance approaching camera. Indian Engineers maintaining the strip with hand tools. Local labourers on the airstrip.
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: JFU 159
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-10-29
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) SEAC Film Unit (Production company) Wishart, Basil Ferguson1919-09-191997-02-11Sergeant cameraman, No 9 Army Film and Photo Unit, later editor of the Shetland Times. Obituary see Herald Scotland, 13 February 1997. (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, 29th Infantry Brigade (regiment/service) British Army, 36th Division (regiment/service) Northern Combat Area Command (regiment/service) United States Army Air Forces (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps, 154th Field Ambulance (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Mohnyin, Burma (geography) Air evacuation of casualties, Air operations over Burma, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event) Burma 1942-1945 (theme) India 1939-1945 (theme) British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 326 ft; Running time: 4 mins
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    JFU 159

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    JFU 119 (2ND BATTALION EAST LANCASHIRE REGIMENT ATTACK MOHNYIN [Allocated Title])
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