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)
Series Title:
ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
 

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
 

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