Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command (SEAC), arrives by air in Rangoon, Burma, before visiting liberated British prisoners of war in hospital.

Mountbatten's aircraft (an Avro York transport serial number MW10x) seen coming in to land at Mingaladon airfield near Rangoon. Mountbatten's aircraft taxiing with senior officers in the foreground. Mountbatten alights from the aircraft and salutes. He is received by Lieutenant-General Sir Montagu Stopford (commander of 12th Army), Air Marshal Sir Hugh Saunders (commander RAF Burma) and Major-General George Symes (commander South Burma District). Mountbatten chats with the officers. Two men at work fixing pennants to Mountbatten's staff car; amongst them a Union flag with the phoenix insignia of the Supreme Allied Commander at its centre. Mountbatten gets into the car and it drives away. Murky interior footage of a visit by Mountbatten to a hospital in Rangoon. After the visit Mountbatten gets back into his car. Hospital patients watch from upstairs windows. Mountbatten addresses an assembled crowd of released POWs outside a hospital building. Men applauding the speech.

Notes

Dopesheet states that these former prisoners of war had been freed from Siam (Thailand) captured during and since the fall of Singapore and had been put to work building the Bangkok-Moulmein railway (also known as the Burma Railway or 'Railway of Death'). See related items for film of this railway.