Title:EVACUATION OF WOUNDED BY DE HAVILLAND TIGER MOTH BIPLANE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ABY 23
Other titles:ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:Demonstrating the use of an RAF de Havilland Tiger Moth biplane to evacuate casualties from improvised landing areas to hospital on the Imphal front, India.
Description:Jeep carrying casualty on stretcher approaches Tiger Moth aircraft in jungle clearing. Casualty unloaded from jeep and laid on ground next to aircraft. Casualty transferred on to separate Neil Robertson naval stretcher and strapped in. Casualty is inspected by medical officer before being loaded into rear fuselage of the Tiger Moth. Fuselage is replaced over the casualty. Pilot climbs aboard, starts engine and taxis out of shot. Low altitude air-to-air footage of Tiger Moth in flight over wooded terrain, some of it in very close formation.
Alternative Title:ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:ABY 23
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Film: IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1944-08-02-1944-08-02
Production Country:GB
Production Details:Air Ministry, Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
Royal Air Force Film Production Unit (Production company)
Goozee, S (Production individual)
