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Animated illustration of the Burma Road as vital link between Lashio, Burma and Kunming, China during World War II.
A film titled 'Under Heaven all is one Family' illustrates the importance of the Burma Road during World War II. A globe spins. Animated map of China depicts the distance of Singapore from the U.S. and highlights Rangoon. The map further highlights Burma, China, Indo-China and Thailand. The Burma Road is presented as a vital link between Lashio, Burma, and Kunming, China during World War II.
United States Army aircraft airlift supplies to China over The Hump air route during WW2
Airlift of supplies from India to China through “The Hump” during World War 2. Barrels of oil in Allied airfield in Assam, India. Sikh Indian laborers, wearing Dastar turbans, load supplies on a plane as an American soldier watches. Man welding. Dismantled airplane equipment. Shirtless American soldiers inspect equipment before boarding plane. A Curtiss C-46 Commando takes off. Three planes of the American Transport Command fly over “The Hump”. Map showing flight route change from Dibrugarh, India to Kunming, China. A C-47 Skytrain flies over mountainous jungle, misty fog, and high mountains of the Himalayas. Various views of the Eastern Himalayan Uplift. A Curtiss C-46 Commando lands in Kunming, China.
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).
First Allied convoy reaches Kunming, China, over the Ledo Road, during World War II
U.S. military trucks, part of a convoy of 113 vehicles, led by Brigadier General Lewis Andrew Pick, are seen traversing the Ledo Road (aka the Stilwell Road) approaching their final destination of Kunming, China, on February 4, 1945, during World War 2. (They departed Ledo, India, on January 12, 1945, traveling a distance of 1,079 miles.) (Narrator gives distance as 1,044 miles.) View from an overflying airplane shows the long column of trucks on the road below. View from the ground, of the convoy reaching the city gates, where it halts as General Pick and his staff proceed through the gates to a speaker's platform set up in a covered pavilion displaying American and Chinese flags, and pictures of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. General Pick and staff are introduced by Chinese General J.L. Wong who, speaking in English, celebrates this first convoy over the Ledo Road, and points to a banner containing four Chinese characters that spell out "The Road to Victory." General Pick takes the podium, shakes hands with General Wong, and accepts the banner from him. Camera shows the area completely filled with Chinese troops, witnessing the ceremony, including many sitting atop a nearby roof. General Pick speaks briefly, accepting the banner on behalf of the convoy members. He then leaves accompanied by the Governor of Yunnan Province, China. Officers cut a ceremonial ribbon across the road at the West Gate of the city, and the convoy is led into the city by two Chinese soldiers on motorcycles. Chinese spectators line the way and celebrate with firecrackers and cheers, as General Pick passes, standing in a jeep, displaying the Amercan flag and with the Chinese "Road to Victory" banner in its back seat. views of the convoy trucks proceeding through the city. Closeup of one, with a painting of the road, and snow capped mountains, and "First Convoy over the Ledo Road" and "Pick's Pike Life Line from India to China" painted on its canvas cover. A sign over one of the shops along the road reads in Chinese and English, "Welcome First Stilwell Highway Convoy." Views of troops waving from the trucks and Chinese citizen spectators crowding the sides of the road to watch.
Allied supplies being transported from Calcutta , India to Kunming, China through United States Army Air Force planes.
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).
Japanese attack Kunming and American Forces carry supplies to the victims in China.
American Forces in China. An animated map of China shows attack by the American 14th Air Forces from two fronts. Chinese men use a roller and dig a ditch. United States B-24 aircraft in flight. Pilots shake hands. An aircraft in the background. Supplies being loaded onto a plane. A house on fire as a man runs in the foreground. Houses burn and smoke rises from the area as a result of a Japanese attack. Damaged houses and a deserted city in China. An explosion occurs and a pillar of smoke rises. Bomb craters on the ground. An American flag being lowered and removed from a flag post by men. Men load supply boxes in an aircraft. A plane takes off. Chinese people eat food. Chinese children being fed chow by women. People lie down to rest. (World War II period).
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