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.
A film titled 'Coming Kunming' based on the problem of getting supplies to China and the activities of U.S. Troop Carrier Command during World War II. Japanese troops march into a Chinese town during Sino-Japanese war. They advance during an invasion. A map highlights the Burma Road linking Burma with China and Kunming, Yunnan and Lashio as its terminals. A Chinese woman works on the road. Trucks move along the road. The Ledo Road as an alternative to the Burma Road which had been cut by the Japanese Army. U.S. Army Air Force B-24 Liberator bombers in flight over the Himalayan Mountains. Inadequate dock facilities in Calcutta, India. A map details transportation problem. Native labor is used for the construction of a U.S. air base in India. Building of rail road lines. Chinese laborers work in China. Cargo ships underway at sea.
Azon Bombs in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. United States Army Air Force personnel unpacks the smoke flares from wooden boxes. Tests of flares and checks their continuity using some meter. In a laboratory a man removes gyroscope which controls the ailerons and rudder from a box to test them. He tests a radio receiver for frequency matching and then installs it in Azon Bomb assembly. Testing of the complete assembly and marking it as correct.
Azon Bombs in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force technicians perform continuity and other tests on various components of Azon Bombs in their laboratory. The indicators and meter readings display the results of the tests. Technicians with badges on their uniform check and assemble a tail section of an Azon Bomb. Another technician fills the check sheet.
Azon Bombs in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. A U.S. Army Air Force technician in uniform works with multiple tail sections of Azon Bombs kept in a series on a wooden board. He attaches smoke flares and fastens the screws with the tail sections using a screw driver. He makes entries in his record book.
Azon Bombs in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. B-24 bomber of the United States Army Air Force gets ready for an operation. Personnel loading the turret guns in the nose of a B-24 bomber. Airmen work and check its engines and other parts. A truck arrives near the bomber. Men roll bombs down from the truck. Men start attaching the bomb with the wings of B-24. A tanker fills the fuel tank of the bomber.
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