AIR CONVOYS 1942
Unedited rushes. Air convoys in Takoradi and Ikeja, Lagos. Unloading Hurricane crates.
Unedited rushes. Air convoys in Takoradi and Ikeja, Lagos. Unloading Hurricane crates.
Scenes of Burmese civilians receiving medical treatment and air evacuation of British casualties from Mohnyin in northern Burma.
At a dressing ...
Burma, 30 January 1942. American Volunteer Group (AVG), Two Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk fighter aircraft warming up for take-off on a dusty airstrip. Panning shot across airstrip. Tomahawk aircraft taking off. Another Tomahawk aircraft taxiing to take-off, ...
Air Marshal Coryton, Air Officer Commanding Third Tactical Air Force visits RAF 177 Squadron and RAF 211 Squadron equipped with Bristol Beaufighters ...
The new Allied Air Commander-in-Chief of South East Asia Command, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, arrives with his wife at Alipore airfield, near ...
139 Company AMPC (Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps) clearing debris in Bryanston Square and Park Crescent, London W1.
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139 Company under command of Major Hood MC, 2 Montagu Square, ...
Company of Indian members of the AMPC (Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps) (recruited mainly from Lascars at docks and ports) clearing up Sloane Street underground station, London, after air raid. Indian ...
Reel 1: A parked RAF Short Stirling transport aircraft with a white-painted Consolidated Liberator behind it. General view of the airfield at Mauripur. A Liberator lands. ...
Aircraft dropping supplies by parachute and evacuating wounded in support of 7th Indian Division, Fourteenth Army.
Men of Air Supply Company ...
Footage of various Allied transport aircraft taking off after being loaded with weaponry and mules for resupply operations.
Aircraft include ...
Men of 23rd Brigade shown reoccupying the village of Ukhrul in Manipur, India and being resupplied with food and other items by parachute supply ...
Scenes of RAF Liberator heavy bomber operations over Burma.
RAF Consolidated Liberator heavy bombers of RAF 159 Squadron at dispersal with ...