Film demonstrating the use of a floating dock on the Rangoon river, Burma.

At Rangoon docks a wide shot shows a merchant ship berthed alongside a floating dock platform. View from the platform with a number of men (dockworkers or military engineers?) sitting on the floating surface. The surface can be seen flexing slightly on the water. Close-up of the interlocking dock structure. High shots looking down over the floating dock. View down a gangway leading to the dockside; a number of British personnel go down. A Captain Jones, sat on a pile of engineering stores, speaks with his jemadar (a junior Viceroy's Commissioned Officer) and looks at a set of blueprints. Footage taken from a boat on the river showing varous views of the docks with wharves, ships (one apparently a large liner or troopship), local boats and waterfront warehouses (some with obvious bomb damage). A Colonel Gilbert conferring with Captain Jones. A tug tows a large section of floating platform. Two sections are linked together.

Notes

After the fall of Rangoon in early May 1945 a large number of United States Army Air Force transport aircraft were withdrawn from air supply duties to Commonwealth forces in order to be redeployed to China. As British and Indian forces in the field had been dependent on this air supply during their advance through Burma, the rehabilitation of ports such as Rangoon (which had been heavily bombed) and of overland transport routes became a vital task.

The dopesheet does not give a unit for either Captain Jones or Colonel Gilbert (possibly of Indian Engineers or Royal Engineers)