LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN VISITS AN AIRSTRIP NEAR MANDALAY, BURMA [Allocated Title]

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Description

Object description

Lord Mountbatten visits a forward airstrip near Mandalay, with scenes of Hawker Hurricane operations and the RAF Regiment.

Full description

Hawker Hurricane AW:Z of RAF 42 Squadron lands on a dusty forward airstrip. A second Hurricane lands. Hurricanes parked and camouflaged at concealed dispersal. Two airmen standing by a jeep are joined by two more. Two of the airmen wear kukris on their belts, and one of them a pistol. Close-up on the chatting airmen. RAF Regiment airmen leaving a trench covered with a bamboo and grass basha. Close-up on airmen leaving. Close-up on 'RAF Regiment' insignia on an airman's bush hat. Group of men under the wing of a Douglas Dakota transport aircraft. Lord Mountbatten being introduced to a group of airmen. Mountbatten talking with Lieutenant-General Stopford (General Officer Commanding XXXIII Indian Corps) beside a jeep. Chatting with men. Mountbatten boards his personal Dakota (the highly-polished bare metal 'Hapgift'), which starts to taxi away.

Physical description

35mm

Object Details

Category: Film
Related period: Second World War (content)
Creator: Air Ministry, Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
Royal Air Force Film Production Unit (Production Company)
Woodcock, Sidney Leslie (Production individual)
Production date: 1945-01-24
Place made: GB
Dimensions: whole: Number Of Items/reels/tapes 1
Catalogue number: ABY 66

Object associations

Associated people and organisations

Mountbatten, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George
Stopford, Montagu George North
Royal Air Force, 42 Squadron
Associated events

Fighter operations, Air operations over Burma, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War
Associated items

HAWKER HURRICANE OPERATIONS BY RAF 42 SQUADRON AT ONBAUK [Allocated Title]
THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST: THE BURMA CAMPAIGN 1941-1945
BRITISH GENERALS 1939-1945
ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.
Associated places

Onbauk, Burma
Mandalay, Burma
Tabingaung, Burma
Associated themes

Royal Air Force 1939-1945
Far East 1939-1945
India 1939-1945
United States Air Forces 1939-1945

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LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN VISITS AN AIRSTRIP NEAR MANDALAY, BURMA [Allocated Title]

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