Other titles:ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes of peasant agriculture and Buddhist temple bells near Mandalay, Burma.
Description: Burmese peasant farmers thresh grain using bullocks to trample it underfoot. Close-up of this. Temple spires. RAF Spitfires overhead. A statue of a chinthe, or mythical lion-like guardian. Buddhist monks, with shaven heads and wearing their traditional robes, point up at the sky as the Spitfires pass. A Burmese boy drives a water-wagon drawn by a bullock. Close-up on the boy.
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)
Shears (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Layzell, R G (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: Mandalay, Burma (geography)
Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Mandalay 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Royal Air Force 1939-1945 (theme)
Far East 1939-1945 (theme)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
