ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

The Nawab of Bhopal, Hamidullah Khan, visits Imphal airfield at sunset.

The Nawab (an honorary Air Commodore) is greeted by Air Vice Marshal ...

... in action. He and his pilot, Flight Lieutenant J G Buchanan of RAF 110 Squadron, failed to return after a Mosquito sortie over Rangoon on 2 May 1945. They are buried in adjacent plots in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Rangoon War Cemetery.

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Scenes of RAF anti-mosquito operations around Imphal, India.

Three Hawker Hurricanes overhead spraying kerosene and DDT. Shot of two Hurricanes ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Aircraft dropping supplies by parachute and evacuating wounded in support of 7th Indian Division, Fourteenth Army.

Men of Air Supply Company ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

RAF 42 Squadron Hawker Hurricanes are used to attack ground targets, drop parachute supply canisters and distribute leaflets over Burma, October- ...

... and tanks operating over the same area - [a]s our power grows in the Far East combined operations of this nature will do much towards bringing the Jap war machine to a standstill'.

For other film of RAF close support exercises, see related items.

... through an archway at Delhi's Red Fort before stopping to admire a stone elephant. Group of WAAF's dwarfed by the All-India War Memorial. Camera pans up to show inscription: 'INDIA'. LACW Bowen and Dearlove take camel rides. WAAF's climb into a horse- ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Indians and Britons compete at an inter-Service athletics meeting, hosted by the RAF at Charbatia, north of Cuttack, Orissa, India.

VIP's ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Footage of various Allied transport aircraft taking off after being loaded with weaponry and mules for resupply operations.

Aircraft include ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Reel 1: Film showing flying boat operations and airmen's recreational activities at RAF Koggala in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). RAF Consolidated Catalina aircraft taking off and coming ...

... collided with another Liberator of the same squadron and both disintegrated. All aboard both aircraft were killed. McKee, and the nineteen other aircrew of the two bombers, are buried in the CWGC Maynamati War Cemetery, near Comilla in Bangladesh.

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

A Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF 230 Squadron and DUKW amphibians are used to evacuate casualties of 111th Brigade during Operation River, May- ...