EVACUATION OF WOUNDED BY DE HAVILLAND TIGER MOTH BIPLANE [Allocated Title]

Demonstrating the use of an RAF de Havilland Tiger Moth biplane to evacuate casualties from improvised landing areas to hospital on the Imphal front, India.

Jeep carrying casualty on stretcher approaches Tiger Moth aircraft in jungle clearing. Casualty unloaded from jeep and laid on ground next to aircraft. Casualty transferred on to separate Neil Robertson naval stretcher and strapped in. Casualty is inspected by medical officer before being loaded into rear fuselage of the Tiger Moth. Fuselage is replaced over the casualty. Pilot climbs aboard, starts engine and taxis out of shot. Low altitude air-to-air footage of Tiger Moth in flight over wooded terrain, some of it in very close formation.

35mm