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Chiang Kai-shek of China receives highest U.S. Foreign award during World War II

General Joseph Warren Stilwell presents the Legion of Merit to Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing (Chungking), China during World War II. Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mei-ling) is also present. Madame Chiang talks to news correspondents.

Location: Chungking China
Date: 1943
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040768
Recruitment of Civilians for Chinese Peoples Army during 2nd Sino-Japanese war. First All-volunteer Group (Flying Tigers) formed by Claire Chennault

Events in 2nd Sino-Japanese War covering late 1930's through 1943 in World War 2 Scene opens with two Chinese army buglers sounding a call. Next, a line of recruits is seen marching on a field. Chinese officers sit at a table with civilian officials. A Huge crowd of army volunteers are seated, each holding a small white flag. Two more buglers sounding a call. Crowd of recruits move through a gate. Northern Chinese soldiers in fur hats march. Recruits are shown from the East and West of China. Recruits in formation. Bugler sounding a call. Chinese cavalrymen joining the army. More scenes of Chinese people joining together to fight the Japanese. Recruits engaged in close order drill and physical training. Uniformed soldiers in helmets, performing Calisthenics with rifles. Platoons of Chinese soldiers practicing marching and tactical maneuvers. Chinese youth training as first aid workers, carrying stretchers and learning first aid techniques. Chinese women in uniform marching with rifles. A Chinese girl kneels down behind a Maxim machine gun, as an officer instructs and other girls sit around in a group. Glimpse of girls training with rifles on an outdoor firing range. Claire Lee Chennault and his American "Flying Tigers" pilots and P-40 airplanes at an airfield. The American flag flying from a flagpole behind them. Pilots scrambling to their aircraft. Chenneult, now a U.S.A.A.F Major General, commander of 14th Air Force in China, in seen congratulating Chinese army aviators. He is accompanied by a Chinese Air Force General. Behind them is parked a B-24 Liberator bomber of the 308th Bombardment Group. A Chinese Nationalist P-40 with tiger teeth logo on air intake, starts its engine and taxis out for takeoff. View from cockpit of a P-40 pursuing and shooting down a Japanese Nakajima Ki-27 aircraft. Chinese soldiers in precision drills at a garrison.

Location: Chungking China
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025188
Chinese youth join the Army as Japan advances further in land and isolates China; Colonel Chennault and Flying Tigers.

Japanese invasion of China. Chinese soldiers blow the trumpet. Young men march in a field. Young men register in the Army. Millions of young people answer the call to fight for China. Volunteers from south, north, east and west China to form the people's army. Men and women with their children leave to join the forces. Drumming sound. New recruits train and perform a drill to drum beats. Soldiers practice martial arts, rifle handling, and shooting. Others train to care for the sick and wounded. Women soldiers in uniform. They learn to fire a gun. Pilots crowd around an officer. Planes in the background. Men from other countries prepare to fight for China. U.S. Colonel Claire Chennault of the American Volunteer Group Flying Tigers, talks to his men. The Curtiss P-40 Warhawks with the shark face emblems take off. Chinese soldiers march. Japan: Japanese officials in a meeting. Japanese troops penetrate China along the rivers. They rebuild destroyed rail roads using slave labor. A map depicts the Japanese strategy of cutting off Chinese supply lines. Japanese warships blockade the coast with the aim to isolate China. Japanese occupied ports in China. Japanese warships and boats in a Chinese port. Gas plants, gun factories and planes. Indochina map: The narrow gauge railway from sea to Kunming and a truck road to Chungking. The camel trail from Russia across the Gobi Desert. The railroad from Rangoon to Lashio in Burma. (World War II period).

Location: China
Date: 1941
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033616
U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace plays volleyball with soldiers and visits an orphanage during his visit to Chungking (Chongqing), China (WW2)

U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace visits China during World War II. Generalissimo of the Nationalistic Government of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek in Chungking (Chongqing) to greet the U.S. Vice President. An aircraft lands and Henry Wallace disembarks from it. He is greeted by dignitaries. At a Red Cross Service Men's Club, he is greeted by Red Cross workers. Wallace shakes hands with U.S. soldiers and plays volleyball with them. He visits an orphanage with Madame Chiang (Soong Mei-ling) and other dignitaries. The girls at the orphanage. At Chiang Kai-shek's summer residence, a reception is given in Vice President's honor.

Location: Chungking China
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050660
The Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Tse-Tung poses with the U.S. Ambassador to China Patrick Hurley in Chongqing, China

The Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong and the U.S. Ambassador to China in Chongqing (Chungking), China shortly after the end of World War II. Chairman Mao followed by other Communist leaders leaves the aircraft. Chairman Mao poses with the United States Ambassador to China Patrick J. Hurley.

Location: Chungking China
Date: 1945, August 25
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074218
Chinese Guerilla soldiers fire artillery after Japanese bombing attack on Chungking (Chongqing), China.

Japanese bombing attack on Chungking (Chongqing), China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Population evacuates seeking safety outside the city. Soldiers hide behind a rock. Chinese volunteer soldiers include women. Chinese Guerilla force. Soldiers move field guns and fire them.

Location: Chungking China
Date: 1939, August 2
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055168
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