Title:GENERAL WHEELER IN THE ARAKAN [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MWY 233
Other titles:INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Lieutenant-General Raymond Wheeler, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, visits the Arakan coastal region of Burma.
Description: On an airfield with parked transport aircraft; Lieutenant-General Raymond Wheeler US Army, and another American officer in conversation, facing away from camera. A series of aerial shots, probably taken over the Arakan coast near the Mayu peninsula, showing flat coastal terrain, wooded areas (the first aerial shot is possibly taken over Sandawshin, an island south of Akyab) and large merchant vessels (troopships?) on the water. Wheeler stepping down from an aircraft. He is greeted by an RAF officer and by a major-general wearing the patch of 26th Indian Division (Major-General Chambers?). Group sitting in an amphibious jeep. Group in discussion over a map; Chambers (?), a brigadier and a Royal Navy admiral are in attendance. Wheeler plus Chambers (?) watching troops leave a landing craft. Wheeler and Chambers (?) leave a wooden building; a sign reads ‘Camp Ritchie’. On a beach, looking out to sea; amphibious jeep reverses across shot as another jeep waits. The jeep carrying the group drives off up the beach.
Alternative Title:INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: SEAC Photo Unit (US) (Production company)
Widmayer, WilliamCombat cameraman with SEAC Photo Unit (US). (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Wheeler, Raymond Albert (person)
Chambers, Henry Maurice (person)
Indian Army, 26th Indian Division (regiment/service)
Keywords: Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
Third Arakan Campaign 1944-1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Arakan, Burma (geography)
