RELEASE OF ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR IN THE FAR EAST [Allocated Title]

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Object description

Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and civilian internees are liberated from Japanese captivity and evacuated by RAF aircraft to Kallang Airport, Singapore.

Full description

A group of POWs in the grounds of a house pose for the camera. Interior of a bamboo barrack hut. A thatched hut with a tall bamboo stockade. Interior of the hut. Panning view across a parade ground with several huts. Kallang Airport, Singapore; released POWs and civilian internees (including a young boy) stand by a parked RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft. More released POWs are helped down from the aircraft. Eight amputees, each missing a leg, make their way on crutches towards the Kallang terminal building. Medical personnel of the Indian Army Medical Corps unload stretcher cases from a Dakota and put them into the back of waiting ambulances. Two ambulances drive away; the second vehicle is named 'Daphne'.

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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)
Elsee (Pilot Officer) (Production individual)
Production date: 1945-10-12
Place made: GB
Dimensions: whole: 1
Catalogue number: ABY 167

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