Title:SUPREMO ARRIVES IN RANGOON TO VISIT BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 316
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command (SEAC), arrives by air in Rangoon, Burma, before visiting liberated British prisoners of war in hospital.
Description: Mountbatten's aircraft (an Avro York transport serial number MW10x) seen coming in to land at Mingaladon airfield near Rangoon. Mountbatten's aircraft taxiing with senior officers in the foreground. Mountbatten alights from the aircraft and salutes. He is received by Lieutenant-General Sir Montagu Stopford (commander of 12th Army), Air Marshal Sir Hugh Saunders (commander RAF Burma) and Major-General George Symes (commander South Burma District). Mountbatten chats with the officers. Two men at work fixing pennants to Mountbatten's staff car; amongst them a Union flag with the phoenix insignia of the Supreme Allied Commander at its centre. Mountbatten gets into the car and it drives away. Murky interior footage of a visit by Mountbatten to a hospital in Rangoon. After the visit Mountbatten gets back into his car. Hospital patients watch from upstairs windows. Mountbatten addresses an assembled crowd of released POWs outside a hospital building. Men applauding the speech.
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:Mountbatten, Louis (Earl)
Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person)
Symes, George William (person)
Saunders, Hugh William Lumsden (person)
Stopford, Montagu George North (person)
Keywords: Rangoon, Burma (geography)
Mingaladon, Burma (geography)
Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
