Danny - on the Flying Suit thread you quoted one of your previous posts here in which you made the point that the Kachin tribes of Northern Burma had been reasonably well-disposed towards us and that the occupying Japanese had regularly taken what they needed at gunpoint. I understand that, to help make things difficult for the enemy, they had been persuaded to destroy their rice stocks and, when the war ended, an obligation to assist them had been created.
10 Squadron had been a 4 Gp Halifax unit until VE Day when, with others, it had been transferred to convert to Dakotas for transport duty in India. In March 1946, when based at Poona, it went on detachment to Burma to carry out airdrops of rice and salt from Meiktila and Myitkyina. Despite challenging weather and terrain, all was going well until 29 March when three aircraft with crews and dispatchers were lost on the same day. Searches from the air and on the ground were initiated and, eventually, on the morning of 3 April, an Indian Army Sepoy was spotted. He was onboard as a dispatcher and had either been thrown out of the door or had jumped at the last moment. Further searches were carried out but no further survivors were found. 15 British personnel and 4 Indian troops were lost that day. The airdrop task continued and the Squadron returned to Poona towards the end of April, some 20 days earlier than expected, largely due to the intensive flying rate achieved - some 2855 hours over 40 days. Hopefully, that wartime obligation had been fully discharged.