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Title:845 NAVAL AIR SQUADRON AT NANGA GAAT [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ADM 1947
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Summary: 845 Squadron operates Wessex helicopters against Indonesian guerrillas in Brunei.
Description: Aerial views from helicopter flying over the jungle. Cut to helicopter now landed by a river - supplies have been landed and are taken up by a party from a native village - as the helicopter flies off it passes over one of the long-houses of the settlement. Aerial shots of a companion Wessex HAS.1 in flight and aerial views of jungle and river. Back at base the crewmen leave their aircraft. LA.MS as a Wessex comes in to land on one of the prefabricated metal pads. A Lieutenant relaxes in the wardroom. Cut to an aerial view of the settlement at Nanga Gaat and pan to show the parked helicopters - three Wessex and a Whirlwind. One of the Wessex starts up and lifts off while in the background a second runs up. Aerial views of the whole settlement and air base, situated within a bend in the river, and surrounding jungle terrain. Sequence showing a pre-flight briefing. MCU of board bearing the legend "845 Naval Air Squadron, HMS TAIJARI, RNAS NANGA GAAT". Two men armed with FN rifle and Sterling SMG board a Wessex helicopter, followed by the pilot. The helicopter bears the 845 Squadron badge, a dragonfly on a field barry wavy, and a personal emblem, the character Boo-Boo from Yogi Bear. A GPMG is mounted to fire through one of the open doors. Pilot starts her up. CU of aircraft's instrument panel. Tail rotor starts up. Helicopter lifts off and flies with a companion over the jungle. Cut to CUs of a four-man Army patrol in jungle greens and carrying FNs, sitting smoking, looking dishevelled but raffish, beside a fast-flowing jungle stream. A Wessex touches down on the small, rocky beach, and the patrol boards the aircraft which immediately lifts off. The helicopters fly over the jungle to a small pad on a forested hillside where first the companion and then the camera-aircraft unload supplies in touch-and-go landings without shutting down engines. One of the soldiers collecting the supplies waves as the camera-aircraft climbs away.
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm, Sqdn 845 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, RNAS Nanga Gaat (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Taijari (regiment/service)