LOADING RAF DAKOTA AIRCRAFT FOR SUPPLY OPERATIONS FROM CHANDINA, EAST BENGAL, INDIA (21/5/1944)
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: ABY 15).
Synopsis
Scenes showing RAF Douglas Dakota aircraft being loaded and refuelled prior to supply operations from Chandina, India.
Dakota aircraft being loaded from lorries. Aircrew drinking tea while their aircraft is loaded. Aircraft being refuelled from a bowser. Aircraft landing. The airmen's cookhouse.
Notes
RAF 62 Squadron was the only transport squadron to be based at Chandina at the time this film was shot, but this identification is not definitive. Likely that the aircraft here are flying in support of operations in the Arakan region of Burma. Chandina is now in Bangladesh.
No slates, date from dopesheet.
Titles
- LOADING RAF DAKOTA AIRCRAFT FOR SUPPLY OPERATIONS FROM CHANDINA, EAST BENGAL, INDIA (21/5/1944) (Allocated)
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1944
- Running Time:
- 5 minutes
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 35mm
- Colour:
- B&W
- Sound:
- Silent
- Footage:
- 380 ft
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- GB
- Sponsor
- Air Ministry Directorate of Public Relations
- cameraman
- Hughes, H R (Sergeant)
- Production company
- Royal Air Force Film Production Unit
- Sergeant; cameraman
- Clot, Dennis Francis Emile
