ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR AT KALLANG (10/9/1945)

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: ABY 142).

Synopsis

Allied prisoners of war, liberated from Japanese captivity, are seen at Kallang airfield, Singapore.

Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, distinctive by his eyepatch and amputated left arm, steps down from an aeroplane and inspects a guard of honour. He speaks with a liberated prisoner of war (POW). POWs gather around a jeep; though ubiquitous by 1945, many of these men had not seen one until they were liberated. A parked Douglas Dakota transport aircraft with a figure of Pegasus on the nose. POWs around an ambulance. A convoy of ambulances passes along a road. View from the Cathay Building over rooftops towards Kallang sea port; aircraft passing overhead (one of them an RAF De Havilland Mosquito) and many ships moored in the harbour. Japanese soldiers, now themselves prisoners of war, filling in trenches in the grounds of an ecclesiastical building, possibly a cathedral. An RAF officer demonstrates a covert radio set hidden in a water bottle.

 

Titles

  • ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR AT KALLANG (10/9/1945) (Allocated)
Series Title:
ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
 

Technical Data

Year:
1945
Running Time:
4 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
35mm
Colour:
B&W
Sound:
Silent
Footage:
356 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
GB
Sponsor
Air Ministry Directorate of Public Relations
cameraman
Tookey, C E W (Pilot Officer)
Production company
Royal Air Force Film Production Unit
 

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