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Title:AERIAL SURVEY OF MAYMYO, BURMA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ABY 83
Other titles:ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: A low-altitude aerial survey of bomb damage in and around Maymyo (now Pyin U Lwin), Burma.
Description: Low altitude (c.100-ft) air-to-ground footage of Maymyo, showing buildings with varying degrees of bomb damage. Some buildings are roofless, others totally destroyed. Bomb damage to nearby railway tracks (probably the Lashio-Mandalay line).
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)
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: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: Maymyo, Burma (geography)
Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Royal Air Force 1939-1945 (theme)
Far East 1939-1945 (theme)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
JFU 177 (SERVICEMEN LAY ON A CHILDREN'S PARTY AT MAYMYO [Allocated Title])
JFU 178 (SERVICEMEN LAY ON A CHILDREN'S PARTY AT MAYMYO [Allocated Title])
JIN 33 (LIFE RETURNS TO MAYMYO [Allocated Title])