Title:CIVILIANS INTERNED AT TAVOY ARRIVE AT MINGALADON AIRFIELD [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 313
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Civilian internees, freed from Japanese captivity at Tavoy (now Dawei) in Lower Burma, arrive by air at Mingaladon airfield near Rangoon before being transferred to hospital.
Description: An RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft lands at Mingaladon. A number of lorries, some marked as ambulances, drive out to meet the aircraft. Civilian internees alight from the aircraft. Civilians get into the back of a lorry. Close-up of a Mr Holden of Chorley in Lancashire. Close-up of Mr C A Fisher. Two children in the back of the lorry look at the camera. Three lorries drive away from the aircraft to take the freed internees to hospital.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
SEAC Film Unit (Production company)
Marshall, L W (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: Mingaladon, Burma (geography)
Rangoon, Burma (geography)
Recovery of Allied Prisoners of War and Internees 1945, Allied Prisoners of War Far East 1939-1945, Internment (event)
Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
