MOSQUITO BUILD-UP [Allocated Title]

Log in to create clips, download free screeners and save clips/films in Collections. Click here to find out more.


  • Title: MOSQUITO BUILD-UP [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ABY 155
  • Other titles: ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Operations by RAF De Havilland Mosquito aircraft at Joari airfield, east of Cox's Bazaar, India, and paratroopers descending on Rangoon, Burma.
  • Description: An RAF De Havilland Mosquito Mk VI fighter-bomber, HR622, being serviced. Two fitters work on one of the aircraft's engines. Two armourers service a gun supported on two oil drums. Mosquito VI QB:S of RAF 45 Squadron takes off followed by QB:T. A Mosquito's engines revving up. Mosquito VI HR540 'B' taxis from dispersal. Mosquitos take off; UX:B of RAF 82 Squadron passes two local Indian men working the ground next to the runway. Mosquitos taking off and landing. A Mosquito in flight overhead. Seated airmen being briefed from a blackboard; they get up and disperse. Aerial footage; three Douglas Dakota transport aircraft in formation. Parachutes drop from the Dakotas. Footage looking back over the tailplane of an aircraft (probably a Bristol Beaufighter) as a bomb bursts on a coastal position. Beaufighters in formation.
  • Alternative Title: ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: ABY 155
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-05-01
  • 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: Royal Air Force, 45 Squadron (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, 82 Squadron (regiment/service) Indian Army, 50th Indian Parachute Brigade (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Joari, Bengal Province, India (geography) Rangoon, Burma (geography) Liberation of Rangoon 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event) Airborne operations, Air operations over Burma, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event) Royal Air Force 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: 276 ft; Running time: 4 minutes
  • HD Media:
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ABY 155

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    ABY 30 (RAF BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER OPERATIONS IN BURMA [Allocated Title]) JFU 202 (AMPHIBIOUS LANDING AT RANGOON BY 26TH INDIAN DIVISION [Allocated Title]) JFU 203 (AMPHIBIOUS LANDING AT RANGOON BY 26TH INDIAN DIVISION [Allocated Title]) JFU 204 (AMPHIBIOUS LANDING AT RANGOON BY 26TH INDIAN DIVISION [Allocated Title]) JFU 205 (AMPHIBIOUS LANDING AT RANGOON BY 26TH INDIAN DIVISION [Allocated Title]) JFU 224 (SEABORNE LANDING AT RANGOON BY 36TH INDIAN INFANTRY BRIGADE [Allocated Title]) CF 583 (ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945) CF 584 (ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945) CF 586 (ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945)
Register