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]
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 (Earl)
Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (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)
