Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and civilian internees are liberated from Japanese captivity and evacuated by RAF aircraft to Kallang Airport, Singapore.

A group of POWs in the grounds of a house pose for the camera. Interior of a bamboo barrack hut. A thatched hut with a tall bamboo stockade. Interior of the hut. Panning view across a parade ground with several huts. Kallang Airport, Singapore; released POWs and civilian internees (including a young boy) stand by a parked RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft. More released POWs are helped down from the aircraft. Eight amputees, each missing a leg, make their way on crutches towards the Kallang terminal building. Medical personnel of the Indian Army Medical Corps unload stretcher cases from a Dakota and put them into the back of waiting ambulances. Two ambulances drive away; the second vehicle is named 'Daphne'.

Notes

No slates, date from dopesheet.

Location at the start of the reel is ambiguous (possibly Siam) and the interior footage of barrack huts is unusable; in the case of the first there appears to have been a camera malfunction as the film is smeared and off-frame, in the second the footage is too dimly lit to be useful.

The Dakota seen appears to be wearing the squadron code FD:N, but this does not seem to relate to any particular squadron.