"Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945." A wounded soldier, evacuated by air from the fighting in the Kalapanzin Valley, is lowered onto a stretcher by medical orderlies at an advanced airfield in the Arakan, as the ambulance aircraft, a De Havilland DH.83 Fox Moth, is refuelled. The pilot, a former London policeman , Flying Officer Edwin E Mackay of Carlisle, watches from his cockpit.