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Douglas C-47 Dakota transport in air, 'My Best Bet' and maple leaf emblem on nose of 435 (Canadian) Squadron RAF shots from aircraft of typical country on Chind Hills flights. Loose rice in aircraft. Typical Lashio setting. Lashio, India, unloading rice from Dakota transport onto trucks. United States engineer graders and dump trucks on airstrip construction. Civil affairs supply Headquatrers Lashio, RAF personnel issuing rice ration to Kachin villagers and at Kutkai issuing rice to Palaungs. At Hsipaw Kachins, Shans and Palaungs entering relief office. Relief office notice board, rice, scales and sales. Lifting load on to the head of a Kachin woman. Kachin women leaving relief centre with rice. Receiving rice for cash. Preparing rice in the home. A convoy of six trucks en route from Lashio to Kutkai. 435 Squadron RAF instrument and radio section. Parachute section. Some of the Australian personnel with the Canadian Squadron. left to right they are: 419172 Flying Officer (F/O) Robert Alexander Frew of Bairnsdale, Vic., 426392 F/O Rober Owen Roseneder of Brisbane, 426929 Warrant Officer Lionel Patrick Taylor of Charleville Qld. Same personnel looking over the rice fields of the Imphal valley.
Sadaung, Burma. Two RAAF Spitfire pilots and 60914 Flying Officer (FO) David Leithhead (right) sit on a low brick wall at Burmese temples. FO Leithhead, who is holding a movie camera, served as a cine
Australian troops in Vietnam are continuing to disrupt vital enemy food supplies. This bagged rice, part of a hidden cache of thirty thousand pounds, was found by crews of armoured personnel carriers
In a 10-hour raid on a Viet Cong supply base this week Australian and New Zealand troops captured nearly 30 tons of rice - the largest rice cache ever found by the 1st Australian Task Force. They also
Pakanbaru POW Camp, Sumatra 15 September 1945. Sign No 1 Allied Hospital. Emaciated men cooking rice. The sick are on stretchers and are carried by lorries to airfield and are loaded aboard ambulance
Akyab airfield, Burma, shows 428056 Pilot Officer (P/O) Selwyn Leonard Bently (Champ) Skeels of Hobart, Tas, a navigator of 197 Squadron RAF as he dries himself. 420261 P/O Edward Roland (Eddie) Poll
Australian armour and infantry this week seized a further 12 tons of rice during continued operations in a known enemy supply base, 15 miles north west of the 1st Australian Task Force base, Nui Dat i
Burma. c. 21 February 1945. Parachutes litter the dropping zone after Douglas C47 Dakota transport aircraft of No. 117 Squadron RAF, many with RAAF members in the crews, had put down their supplies to
