VICTORY PARADE IN RANGOON [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: VICTORY PARADE IN RANGOON [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ABY 108
  • Other titles: ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: With the reoccupation of the Burmese capital Rangoon the Allies stage a victory parade.
  • Description: A podium with dignitaries and an RAF band in the foreground. Jeeps pass along the road between the band and the podium. An RAF Regiment Chevrolet lorry with a 20mm Hispano anti-aircraft gun on the bed of the lorry and a second towed behind. More distant shot showing more of the band. More RAF Regiment Chevrolets follow. View from the podium; an open staff car enters shot left-to-right. The band playing despite heavy rain. A contingent marches past with rifles at the trail arms position. The band playing; the drummers can be seen swirling their beaters. A body of troops, wearing white webbing, marches past with arms at the slope. Supreme Allied Commander, Lord Louis Mountbatten, saluting the parade. A body of men in battledress; they do not carry arms (RAF ground crew?). More men marching past with arms at the slope and Mountbatten saluting. A parade ground; men formed up in the foreground with Allied flags (British, American, RAF, French and Indian visible with others) flying in the background. Men saluting; local people in the background. Looking across the front of a unit on parade. Men remove their headdress to cheer. Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, talks with the RAF band's Drum Major. Mountbatten arriving by car. Opposite angle of the march past; a cathedral in the background. RAF Regiment Chevrolets with anti-aircraft guns. Mountbatten gets back into his staff car and salutes as it drives off. In front of his vehicle is an armoured car and behind a number of motorcycles. Two RAF Spitfire fighters overhead. More footage from the parade ground. Men saluting. Looking towards Allied flags with Indian personnel in the foreground. Men cheering with headdress. A contingent of sailors marching.
  • 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 108
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-06
  • 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)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Mountbatten, Louis (person) Park, Keith Rodney (person) South East Asia Command (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Regiment (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Rangoon, Burma (geography) Liberation of Rangoon 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event) Royal Air Force 1939-1945 (theme) Far East 1939-1945 (theme) Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 510 ft; Running time: 6 minutes
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ABY 108

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    MGH 6205 (BURMA VICTORY PARADE - GOVERNMENT HOUSE [Allocated Title]) MGH 6165 (BURMA VICTORY PARADES-NAVY [Allocated Title]) MGH 6166 (MOUNTBATTEN IN UNIFORM - BURMA [Allocated Title]) JFU 262 (ALLIED VICTORY PARADE IN RANGOON - SENIOR OFFICERS' CLOSE-UPS [Allocated Title]) JFU 264 (ALLIED VICTORY PARADE IN RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 265 (ALLIED VICTORY PARADE IN RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 266 (ALLIED VICTORY PARADE IN RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 269 (ALLIED VICTORY PARADE IN RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 268 (ALLIED VICTORY PARADE IN RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 261 (ALLIED VICTORY PARADE IN RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 263 (ALLIED VICTORY PARADE IN RANGOON [Allocated Title]) MGH 6204 (BURMA VICTORY PARADE & MARCH PAST [Allocated Title]) JIN 79 (ALLIED VICTORY PARADE IN RANGOON [Allocated Title]) FLA 1019 () Art.IWM ART LD 5227 (Lord Louis Mountbatten at Rangoon Victory Parade : 15th June 1945) Documents.8778 (System.Xml.XmlElement)
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