A film based on getting U.S. supplies to China from Calcutta, India during World War II. An animated map highlights Calcutta in India, Santahar and Parbatipur in Bangladesh. A train loaded with U.S. jeeps and trucks. The trucks and a jeep driven onto flat railroad cars. A train moves on a track. U.S. troops board boats on the banks of the Brahamputra River and are ferried to Pandu. A barge loaded with railroad cars moves towards the ferry point of Pandu. An animated map connects Parbatipur with Dhubri, Pandu and Chabua. Chabua is ultimately connected to Kunming in China. U.S. troops sort and unload supplies at Chabua satellite field.
Allied supplies reach China for an action against Japanese in China. Allied officers outside a building in China as supplies from India are unloaded from trucks. Boxes piled up in a room. Shells and barrels in a field. A jeep being loaded onto a plane in Calcutta, India. Planes take off. Aircraft in flight. It flies over snow covered mountains. Aerial view of a river. A United States Army Air Force plane comes in for landing in China. Equipment being unloaded from the plane. (World War II period).
A film based on problems of getting U.S. supplies to China from Calcutta, India during World War II. U.S. trucks and jeeps parked at U.S. 28th Air Depot in Calcutta. Indian laborers unload supply crates from the trucks. The supply crates are transported to a dock. A barge at a dock in the Hooghly River. The laborers unload crates from a truck onto a rail road car. A train heads for Santahar. Native laborers unload supplies from the train in Santahar. Heavy trailers on flat rail road cars. The laborers carry gasoline drums on poles. They work around railroad tank cars. The laborers load boxcars with supplies.
Mob of beggars with tattered clothes stand outside a gate in Calcutta, India. They come inside the gate. They sit in a line to eat food. People serve them food.
Allied action against Japanese in China. Supplies are loaded in a freight ship as it leaves for China from Calcutta, India. Body of trucks loaded onto flat rail road cars. Trucks lined up. Men load bags onto freight trains. They roll down barrels. Tankers are filled with oil. Trucks carry supplies. A freight ship arrives at a port. (World War II period).
Muslims celebrates commemoration of Sacrifice of Ismael in Calcutta, India. Muslim Indians pray in mosque. A 'Maulana' (Muslim priest) addresses the crowd. Men bow for 'Namaz', a prayer ritual. Men embrace each other in the ceremony.
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