Title:RAF AIR RESUPPLY OPERATIONS FROM CHANDINA TO MURDOCH AND TAUNG BAZAAR, BURMA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ABY 16
Other titles:ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: RAF Douglas Dakota aircraft, operating from Chandina, seen resupplying troops with food and ammunition at Murdoch and Taung Bazaar.
Description: Supplies dropped from low altitude. Air-to-air footage. Food parcels dropped without parachutes. Airman manning Vickers K machine gun and navigator standing in astrodome. Airmen 'kicking out' - pushing supplies from aircraft. Supplies dropping and parachutes inflating. Cloudscapes and landscapes. Further internal shots and supplies dropping. Collapsed parachutes scattered across a paddy field.
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)
Clot, Dennis Francis Emile1919-07-04 (Production individual)
Layzell, R G (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: Taung Bazaar, Burma (geography)
Air supply operations, Air operations over Burma, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Second Arakan Campaign 1943-1944, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Aerial Warfare (theme)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
Royal Air Force 1939-1945 (theme)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
