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.
  • 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
  • Notes: RAF 62 Squadron was the only transport squadron to be based at Chandina at the time this film was shot, but this identification is not definitive. Likely that the aircraft here are flying in support of operations in the Arakan region of Burma. Chandina is now in Bangladesh. No slates, date from dopesheet.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ABY 15

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

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