Title:194 SQUADRON DROP SUPPLIES TO 25TH EAST AFRICAN BRIGADE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 140
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: RAF 194 Squadron deliver supplies by parachute to 25th East African Brigade (11th East African Division) on the Tamu-Sittaung road, Burma.
Description: Film shot by Sergeant Abbott: Aerial footage; the camera looks through the windscreen of an RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft of RAF 194 Squadron towards hills shrouded in cloud. The camera aircraft overflies a thickly wooded area which is covered in the parachutes of previous supply drops; cloud drifts over the trees and another Dakota can be seen a short distance in front. Shot facing aft showing three airmen waiting to despatch a stack of supplies. Series of shots looking out of the open door showing supplies being pushed out and the passing jungle canopy. Brief shot looking forward over the port engine. Another bundle is pushed out. Close-up of a member of the flight crew. Forward-facing view through windscreen. Instrument panel with pilot's hands on the controls. Somewhat soft-focused close-ups of the navigator at work. Landscapes and cloudscapes. At an airstrip at Imphal the aircraft is loaded with supplies from the back of a lorry; the word 'SNAKE' can be seen on the rear fuselage. Views of sacks being thrown aboard; they are not fitted with parachutes and so may be sacks of fodder for mules. Parachute bundles follow. A Dakota takes off. Very brief shot showing Squadron Leader Ridd checking the location of the dropzone (DZ) on a map with Captain A J Chase, Air Liaison Officer at Imphal.
Film shot by Sergeant Watson: Footage looking through the door of a Dakota as the aircraft takes off. View (through a fuselage hatch?) of the terrain below with rivers, roads, paddy fields etc. Airmen despatching supplies. Bundles falling from the aircraft with parachutes inflating.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
SEAC Film Unit (Production company)
Watson, W (Production individual)
Abbott, J (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, 11th East African Division (regiment/service)
British Army, 25th East African Infantry Brigade (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, 194 Squadron (regiment/service)
Keywords: Tamu, Burma (geography)
Sittaung, Burma (geography)
Advance to the Chindwin 1944, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Air supply operations, Air operations over Burma, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
ABY 27 (AIR RESUPPLY OPERATIONS BY RAF 194 SQUADRON TO 23RD BRIGADE AT UKHRUL, MANIPUR, INDIA [Allocated Title])
INR 81 (INDIAN NEWS PARADE NO 81 [Main Title])
