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Title:SIR KEITH PARK AT KALLANG AIRPORT, SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ABY 189
Other titles:ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Allied Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Sir Keith Park, arrives at Kallang airport in Singapore, with his wife Lady Park.
Description: At Kallang airport a silver Douglas Dakota transport aircraft arrives carrying ACM Park. The aircraft is serial KN561 and bears the name 'Baksheesh II' on its nose. The aircraft taxis to a halt. Park steps down from the aircraft and is saluted. Lady Park is greeted and helped down from the aircraft. Park and other officers talking amongst themselves. A flypast by eight RAF Thunderbolt fighters in close formation. Park inspects an RAF Regiment guard of honour. The party departs by car.
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)
Tookey, C E W (Production individual)
Hughes, H R (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Park, Keith Rodney (person)
Park, Dorothy (person)
Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Regiment (regiment/service)
Keywords: Kallang, Singapore (geography)
Liberation of Singapore Island 1945, Malaya, Second World War (event)