RAF BURMA [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: RAF BURMA [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 6183
  • Other titles: COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMAND [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary:
  • Description: Men handling bombs. Loading onto Aircraft. Setting fuses. Loading 0.50-inch machine gun ammunition into wing magazines. Working on engine. Cu guns in wings, an armourer checks the chambers. leaning wing over barrels. checking wheel a/c taxiing (Thunderbolt Mk II). 'NV' squadron code suggests RAF 79 Squadron. Bowser, bomb train. Fueling tank cu meter. 2 pilots, cu Yank Pilot, cu USA shoulder flash. Pilot scraping in, looking into wide ammo. Pilot swapping, pilots getting into a/c. Start up, take off up and over, take offs.
  • Access Conditions: Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period:
  • Production Date: 1942
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Hodgkinson, Frank Outram (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Running time: 19 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings. Date: refers to stock dates on Kodachrome Presence of RAF 79 Squadron and the fact they are operating Thunderbolt Mk IIs would suggest a date some time after September 1944.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    MGH 6183

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

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