LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN VISITS AN AIRSTRIP NEAR MANDALAY, BURMA [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN VISITS AN AIRSTRIP NEAR MANDALAY, BURMA [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ABY 66
  • Other titles: ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Lord Mountbatten visits a forward airstrip near Mandalay, with scenes of Hawker Hurricane operations and the RAF Regiment.
  • Description: Hawker Hurricane AW:Z of RAF 42 Squadron lands on a dusty forward airstrip. A second Hurricane lands. Hurricanes parked and camouflaged at concealed dispersal. Two airmen standing by a jeep are joined by two more. Two of the airmen wear kukris on their belts, and one of them a pistol. Close-up on the chatting airmen. RAF Regiment airmen leaving a trench covered with a bamboo and grass basha. Close-up on airmen leaving. Close-up on 'RAF Regiment' insignia on an airman's bush hat. Group of men under the wing of a Douglas Dakota transport aircraft. Lord Mountbatten being introduced to a group of airmen. Mountbatten talking with Lieutenant-General Stopford (General Officer Commanding XXXIII Indian Corps) beside a jeep. Chatting with men. Mountbatten boards his personal Dakota (the highly-polished bare metal 'Hapgift'), which starts to taxi away.
  • Alternative Title: ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: ABY 66
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-01-24
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Air Ministry, Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) Royal Air Force Film Production Unit (Production company) Woodcock, Sidney Leslie1945-05-02Flight Lieutenant Sidney Leslie Woodcock, service number 175562, cameraman with No.3 Royal Air Force Film Production Unit. Killed in action 2 May 1945 while filming from a Mosquito of 110 Squadron RAF over Rangoon, Burma. Buried in Rangoon War Cemetery alongside his pilot, Flight Lieutenant John George Buchanan (415744) see [http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2261432 accessed 24 February 2011] (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person) Stopford, Montagu George North (person) Royal Air Force, 42 Squadron (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Onbauk, Burma (geography) Mandalay, Burma (geography) Tabingaung, Burma (geography) Fighter operations, Air operations over Burma, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event) Royal Air Force 1939-1945 (theme) Far East 1939-1945 (theme) India 1939-1945 (theme) United States Air Forces 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 235 ft; Running time: 3 mins
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    ABY 66

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    ABY 98 (HAWKER HURRICANE OPERATIONS BY RAF 42 SQUADRON AT ONBAUK [Allocated Title]) SE 1800A (THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST: THE BURMA CAMPAIGN 1941-1945) SEU 9121 (BRITISH GENERALS 1939-1945) CF 263 (ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.)
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