Tiger Mate: The 29 March 1945 date for the loss of 7 Dakotas caught my eye. As I mentioned earlier, 10 Squadron was operating from Meiktila and Myitkina on detachment from India for a period in 1946 - and lost 3 aircraft in the hills on 29 March 1946, two of them at the same mountain DZ. A single Sepoy survived one of the crashes and was found a few days later.
Incidentally, there appears to be a gap of about a year in the unit's F540 record from late 1945, and I'd be happy to hear from anyone who has logbook or other family detail to help fill out the picture for that period.
(And odd to hear of events in the town of Meiktila in this morning's news.)