Title:RELEASE OF ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR IN THE FAR EAST [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ABY 167
Other titles:ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and civilian internees are liberated from Japanese captivity and evacuated by RAF aircraft to Kallang Airport, Singapore.
Description:A group of POWs in the grounds of a house pose for the camera. Interior of a bamboo barrack hut. A thatched hut with a tall bamboo stockade. Interior of the hut. Panning view across a parade ground with several huts. Kallang Airport, Singapore; released POWs and civilian internees (including a young boy) stand by a parked RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft. More released POWs are helped down from the aircraft. Eight amputees, each missing a leg, make their way on crutches towards the Kallang terminal building. Medical personnel of the Indian Army Medical Corps unload stretcher cases from a Dakota and put them into the back of waiting ambulances. Two ambulances drive away; the second vehicle is named 'Daphne'.
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 167
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Film: IWM (ABY 167)
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:-1945-10-12
Production Country:GB
Production Details:Air Ministry, Directorate of Public Relations
Royal Air Force Film Production Unit
Elsee (Pilot Officer)
