Title:BRIGADIER GENERAL GROW (CHIEF SURGEON, 8TH USAAF) VISITS THE AIR AMBULANCE UNIT, HENDON [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ACA 14
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: General Grow gets into an Avro Anson aircraft; talks (briefly) to Air Marshal Wittingham and Group Captain Corbitt (of Transport Command); watches a WAAF being placed on a stretcher and being carried to an Anson (with enlarged stretcher door); is shown an Airspeed Oxford (very brief shot) and a De Havilland Flamingo; watches as a 'Sparrow' is prepared to receive casualties; stands near a Douglas Dakota; inspects a section of WAAFs, and watches them folding blankets, also demonstrating stretcher duty. The final shot is a close-up of a WAAF being strapped onto a stretcher.
Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company)
Till (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Corbitt (Group Captain) (person)
Grow (Brigadier General) (person)
Wiltingham (Air Marshal) (person)
Royal Air Force, Air Ambulances Unit (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, medical orderlies (regiment/service)
United States Army Air Force, 8th Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, British - light military: Airspeed Oxford & [-] (object name)
aircraft, British - transport: Avro Anson ambulance plane (object name)
aircraft, British - transport: De Havilland Flamingo ambulance plane (object name)
aircraft, British - transport: Handley Page Sparrow ambulance plane (object name)
aircraft, United States - transport: Douglas C-47 Dakota & [-] (object name)
delegations, United States international - military: Brigadier General Grow visits RAF Hendon (object name)
medical, British air - movement: air (object name)
medical, British air - movement: stretcher (object name)
GB, England & Hendon, Middx <RAF Station> (geography)
