Title:PACKING SUPPLIES FOR AIR RESUPPLY OPERATIONS AT SYLHET, EAST BENGAL, INDIA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ABY 14
Other titles:ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Men of the Air Supply Company, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, packing a variety of material ready for delivery by parachute to troops in the field.
Description: Onions loaded loose into wicker containers. Petrol tins loaded into wooden frames. Heavy hydraulic equipment shown fitted with heavy duty parachutes. Mail loaded into parachute bags. Local currency (rupees) needed to pay indigenous Burmese coolies also packed loosely into bags. Assam labourers shown leaving the airfield. RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft briefly being serviced.
Alternative Title:ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Air Ministry, Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
Royal Air Force Film Production Unit (Production company)
Goozee, S (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Morgan, I (person)
British Army, Royal Army Service Corps, 61 Air Supply Company (regiment/service)
Indian Army, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, 2 Air Supply Company (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: Sylhet, Bengal Province, India (geography)
Air supply operations, Air operations over Burma, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Operation Stamina, Imphal 1944, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Aerial Warfare (theme)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
Royal Air Force 1939-1945 (theme)
