Training exercise at RAF School for Jungle Self-Preservation in India summarises for benefit of aircrews forced to land behind enemy lines best techniques for survival.

Commentary over film lists subjects of instruction: route planning, simple Burmese ("Where are the Japs?"), recognition of locality through hut style, use of bamboo for rope, rafts, bows and snares, Japanese booby traps, cooking and medicine (aircrew emergency kit and dangerous insects and snake). Group of trainees set off on a self-preservation exercise, followed later by Kachin trackers, and commit many blunders: choice of bad leader, walking on brow of hill, false compass reading, leaving a fire burning, dropping cigarette butts and bathing in the open. An "individualist" is singled out for particular criticism for having wandered away from his group; after sleeping in a tree to avoid tigers and crossing a river at a narrow point he eventually reaches base after leaving an easy trail for the trackers.

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Technical: print lacks opening credits and last few feet.