jerryh99
It may be worth looking at Ron Homes's website.
He is an aviation artist who was a WW2 pilot. After a tour as a pilot on Lancasters in Bomber Command he was posted to Dakotas in Burma ( I think!) and certainly flew to Hong Kong and even Oz. IIRC he was on 62 Sqn.
Type Ronald Homes into your search engine and his email address is there. He's a very pleasant guy and I'm sure he'd be happy to furnish info' re Dakota ops in the Far East.