Title:MOUNTBATTEN MEETS COLONEL COCHRAN AND THE CHINDITS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MWY 117
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: At an airfield in India Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, meets Colonel Philip Cochran and (commander, 1st Air Commando Group) and inspects troops of 3rd Indian Division (the Chindits), soon to be deployed by air to Burma.
Description: Mountbatten with Colonel Philip Cochran (United States Army Air Forces, commander 1st Air Commando Group). Mountbatten talking to others, including a British major-general, by a parked USAAF aircraft. Mountbatten and Cochran in discussion; Cochran explains some manouevre with hand gestures and a Waco CG-4 glider stationary behind. Mountbatten watching Gurkha troops pass with mules. Gurkhas passing. Mountbatten and the British major-general. Profile of the general. Mountbatten inspecting Gurkhas. Mountbatten boards a Dakota marked with the four stars of a general. Mountbatten and entourage on foot. The general speaks to a British junior officer. Assembled troops in full gear at a tented camp. A soldier’s personal equipment is shown to Mountbatten. View of the equipment. A soldier in full equipment; he turns around to show the camera the load he is carrying (with Brigadier Calvert watching?). The general examines a small piece of equipment, turns and realises he is on camera and waves ‘cut!’. Mules passing; it carries a Vickers machine gun as part of its load. Men and mules passing through a forested area. Gurkhas passing. More of troops and mules.
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: Public Relations Directorate, India (Production sponsor)
Indian Public Relations Film Unit (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:Mountbatten, Louis (Earl)
Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person)
Cochran, Philip Gerald (person)
Calvert, James Michael (person)
Indian Army, 3rd Indian Division (Chindits) (regiment/service)
United States Army Air Force, 1st Air Commando Group (regiment/service)
Keywords: United States Air Forces 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
Indian Army 1939-1945 (theme)
Chindits 1944, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
