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Montage of scenes related to the China-India-Burma theater during World War II

Two U.S. Pennsylvania class battleships underway at sea, with other warships in background, during World War 2. One fires to starboard with her 14-inch guns from the forward triple turrets. U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bombers flying in formation over mountains. Glimpse of General Douglas MacArthur with General Joseph (Vinegar Joe) Stilwell in gunner's station of a bomber. Montage of brief glimpses showing U.S. forces engaging Japanese forces in: amphibious assaults; firing weapons in New Guinea and other Pacific islands. U.S. warship firing naval guns. U.S. ship firing at attacking Japanese aircraft, with sky full of black flak clouds. Admiral William (Bull) Halsey. Mitsubishi A6M Zero kamikaze aircraft blown up close to flight deck of U.S. aircraft carrier. It misses the ship and crashes in flames, exploding in the water, astern. U.S. General Joseph Stilwell, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, British Allied commander Lord Louis Mountbatten, and Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, photographed together in India. Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek seated for a picture with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Camera moves back revealing British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, also seated. Behind them stand key allied military leaders, including (from the right) Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, Commander-in-chief in India; Admiral Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South-East Asia forces; George Giffard — commander of Eleventh Army Group; U.S. General Daniel Isom Sultan, deputy to General Stilwell; General Joseph Stilwell, Commander China-Burma-India (CBI) Command; and General Albert Coady Wedemeyer, Chiang Kai-Shek's Chief of Staff. General Joseph Stillwell is seen stepping from a military cargo plane, and being greeted by another officer. Stilwell is wearing a campaign hat. He has the CBI patch on his jacket shouder. A B-24 Liberator bomber takes off from a Chinese base at Liuchow, or possibly, Luiliang, China. (ostensibly carrying Chinese soldiers to India for training). U.S. marked P-40 aircraft are parked beside the runway. They display the shark teeth nose art of the Flying Tiger All volunteer Group of Claire Chennault. But this is 1944 and the aircraft are from the U.S. 23rd Fighter Group. Chinese soldiers are seen being armed and trained in India, with modern small arms. They are also seen fording a river with military supplies and moving in jeeps through jungle-like settings. Various views of Ledo Road construction in Burma. bulldozers, trucks, caterpillar tractors, explosives and men are shown in construction work. A jeep rides along a muddy section of the new road while U.S. and Chinese soldiers patrol on either side to protect it. Allied soldiers firing a small field piece. A C-47 aircraft airdrops supplies to the road builders. General Stilwell, standing with a Chinese officer, looks skyward at the aircraft. A C-46 Commando plane taking off from a field in India carrying supplies. Men loading a jeep aboard a C-46, plus ammunition and other supplies. Rare sight of supplies being loaded into nose cargo compartment of the one-of-a-kind XC-108A transport plane (modified B-17 bomber, tail number 41-2593). A formation of USAAF C-45 transport aircraft flying "over the Hump." Chinese P-36 Hawk aircraft in formation demonstrate firepower. Newly trained Chinese pilots marching and walking on flightline where solid-nose B-25s and P-40s are parked. Chinese and American pilots wave to each other from their P-40 aircraft. A B-25 takes off flanked by two P-40s. Bombs being dropped by Chinese B-25s. Japanese ship being strafed by Chinese fighter plane. Chinese laborers at work building an airfield without machinery. A large group pull a paving roller by hand. Chinese troops in combat with Japanese forces. One firing a Czech ZB vz. 26 light machine gun. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek addressing the U.S. Congress, 18 February, 1943.

Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025193
Bulldozer clears path for road construction in Burma.

Bulldozer clears path for road construction in Burma.It pushes land,bushes and trees over embankment. Shows a 6x6 truck loaded with supplies stuck in a ditch.Soldiers unload the supplies from the 6x6. The bulldozer pulls the 6x6 out of the ditch.25 january 1943. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, January 25
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028820
Construction of road in Burma.

Shows construction of road in Burma.Natives cross suspended footbridge. Trucks,trailers and tractors cross a US-constructed bridge.Indian laborers load gravel on trucks from a chute. Trucks dump the gravel on the ground and laborers spread it to construct new roads.Shows laborers tossing gravel from a river bed into truck. A jeep speeds along by a newly constructed road. Truck passes by a sign on the road saying 'To Tokyo'.25 january 1943.

Date: 1943, January 25
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028821
Natives provide water and refreshments to Japanese soldiers in Burma during the Burma Campaign of World War II.

Japanese soldiers in Burma during the Burma Campaign of World War II. Burma natives give water to Japanese soldiers and horses. They serve refreshments to the soldiers. The natives march holding a flag. Steel helmets on the ground.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675050901
Japanese soldiers inspect captured British ammunition and supplies in Burma during the Burma Campaign of World War II.

Japanese soldiers in Burma during the Burma Campaign of World War II. An animated map of Burma. A sign post. A fallen sign post with 'Bank of China wanting' written on it. Drums and wrecked equipment at the side of a road. Japanese soldiers inspect captured British ammunition and supplies. Tires in a shed.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675050906
Japanese soldiers in a jungle in Burma during the Burma Campaign of World War II.

Japanese soldiers in Burma during the Burma Campaign of World War II. Aerial view of an area in Burma. Japanese soldiers in a jungle.

Date: 1943
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675050907