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55 Company RASC (AD) And The RAF Delivering Supplies To Friendly Forces – Part 8

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Subject :55 Company RASC (AD) and the RAF Delivering Supplies to Friendly Forces – Part 8
Published By : None 
Location : Malaya
Estimated Year : 1958
Media Type : Photograph
Source : Norman Doctor / Ken Thomas, UK
Remark : From left to right the photographs show:

  • Bull’s eye! The supply parachute land perfectly on drop zone, Zulu one bar.

  • The pilots view of the Drop Zone. Note the windshield wiper on the left of the plexiglass.

  • The white sack about to be dropped contains rice, the staple diet of all Malayans. Three types of rice were dropped, Polished White, White and Brown. The brown rice was very high in protein thanks to the weevils. The sacks of rice were also packed in a very different manner when compared to the other supply packs; each rice sack was enclosed in a larger sack. The reason this was done was to prevent loss when the inner sack burst upon impact with the ground; the larger sack contained the spillage of rice. The sacks of rice were dropped without the benefit of a parachute from 50 feet onto a large area that had been cleared. Although a lot of heart and soul was put into rice drops so that the sacks would land intact, unfortunately, there were times when the whole aircrew became amateur aerial farmers as the sacks burst upon impact and scattered the rice all over the clearing.

    • To go to Part 9, click here.

    Filename : 20090913-008