LOADING RAF DAKOTA AIRCRAFT FOR SUPPLY OPERATIONS FROM CHANDINA, EAST BENGAL, INDIA [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: LOADING RAF DAKOTA AIRCRAFT FOR SUPPLY OPERATIONS FROM CHANDINA, EAST BENGAL, INDIA [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ABY 15
  • Other titles: ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Scenes showing RAF Douglas Dakota aircraft being loaded and refuelled prior to supply operations from Chandina, India.
  • Description: Dakota aircraft being loaded from lorries. Aircrew drinking tea while their aircraft is loaded. Aircraft being refuelled from a bowser. Aircraft landing. The airmen's cookhouse.
  • Alternative Title: ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: ABY 15
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-05-21
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Air Ministry, Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) Royal Air Force Film Production Unit (Production company) Hughes, H R (Production individual) Clot, Dennis Francis Emile1919-07-04 (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force, 62 Squadron (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Chandina, Bengal Province, India (geography) Second Arakan Campaign 1943-1944, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event) Air supply operations, Air operations over Burma, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event) Royal Air Force 1939-1945 (theme) Aerial Warfare (theme) India 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 380 ft; Running time: 5 minutes
  • HD Media:
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ABY 15

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    Documents.17155 (System.Xml.XmlElement) 11381 ()
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