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The inspection of Chinese troops by the President of China Chiang Kai-shek in Burma during World War II.

China's President Chiang Kai-shek inspects the Chinese troops in Burma during World War II. Soldiers march on a street. An aircraft takes off. China's leader and United Nation's Supreme Commander for South East Asia Chiang Kai-shek along with his wife Soong May-Ling and General Mountbatten inspects Chinese troops in Burma. President Chiang and General Mountbatten looks through binoculars. The President of China Chiang Kai-shek and his wife in an American jeep along with other officials to inspect China's Army mobilizing for attack. The soldiers march. President Chiang addresses the soldiers. An American aircraft supplies the guns and ammunition via parachute to the Chinese soldiers fighting in the jungles of Burma against the Japanese soldiers. Chinese soldiers in jungle with their weapons. The soldiers attack their enemies. The heroes of the Burma's battles receiving medals from U.S. Army General Joseph Warren Stilwell.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057516
Salt mines along a sea coast shown on a map and salt wells dug in Tze-Kung, China.

A documentary titled 'China Gets Her Salt'. A map showing the position of China in the world. Positions of salt mines along the sea coast of China marked on the map. The position of salt wells shown on the map. Tze-Kung city which is 900 miles from the sea coast shown on the map. A large number of buildings in the city. Several boats anchored along the coast. Structures on the mines in view.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066276
New Zealand Nurse Kathleen Hall arrives in China with help and supplies for Bethune International Peace Hospital in China (WW2)

U.S. Air Force C-47 aircraft arrives in Hebei Province of China carrying Nurse Kathleen Hall of the New Zealand Anglican Church Mission in China during World War II. She and companions bring help and supplies for the Bethune International Peace Hospital.

Date: 1944
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046858
African American soldiers engaged on all fronts in World War 2

Film opens with map of the world showing the various theaters of operation in World War II. Narrator refers to Allies liberating town after town, as they advance. View of American troops being welcomed in a European town during an advance (probably Italy in 1944). Next, African American troops are seen boarding troop transport ships. A huge convoy of ships is seen from the air. Huge piles of war materiel on a dock. Ammunition being delivered by landing craft from the transport ship USS Hunter Liggett (APA-14) to American troops at a beachhead in the Pacific. An African American sailors directs the lowering of a piece of artillery from a ship into a landing craft. Construction equipment being used to clear the way for a new landing field. Docks, roads, and bridges being built as the Allies advance. American troops in the swamps of the South Pacific. American Army engineers clearing trees to build the Alaska Highway (ALCAN Highway) in 1942. Corps of Engineers building the Ledo Road (from India to China) during the war. African American soldiers building a bridge across a river in Europe. A U.S. Army truck under fire, driving along a dirt road in Europe as shells burst all around it. U.S. troops firing various kinds of field artillery and tank guns. U.S. infantryman using a flame thrower. Closeup of African American soldier using a bayonet and others firing small arms. A tank being blown up by artillery fire. A Japanese Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero aircraft maneuvers overhead in the Pacific theater. An African American soldier runs to man his Browning .50-caliber, water-cooled antiaircraft machine gun, and begins firing as the Zero fighter plane strafes his position. Closeup of Japanese pilot in his cockpit and his machine guns firing from leading edges of his plane. His rounds strike all around the U.S. gunner, who turns and follows him with more fire. His tracers show behind the plane. Closeup of the African American gunner as he continues firing. View of the Japanese airplane rolling over and diving. Next the Japanese plane, aflame, crashes on a tropical island and explodes. (Note: It is apparent that some of these combat scenes have been made up of clips from other sources, edited into this film.) (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077359
U.S. film designed to boost national morale during World War II. Numerous scenes of American forces engaged in combat.

Several American school children, including one in a Boy Scouts of America uniform, recite the pledge of allegiance during World War 2. Scene broadens to encompass a school yard filled with elementary school students reciting the pledge in front of an American flag flying high on a pole. As scene fades images appear of battleships firing guns; an F4F airplane taking off from an aircraft carrier; landing craft approaching a beach; American soldiers fighting with small arms and a flame thrower, in jungles of New Guinea; a U.S. gun crew firing heavy artillery; and a U.S. P-38 aircraft on a rainy runway, spraying water as it takes off, in the Aleutian Islands. U.S. troops firing automatic weapons on a Pacific Island. A B-17 pilot wearing an oxygen mask in his cockpit, flying in a formation creating contrails at high altitude over Germany. Waist gunner firing at an attacking German fighter plane that explodes in air. U.S. troops in jeeps moving over jungle road. U.S. ski troops on snow in Iceland heading downhill toward their tents in the snow. American troops during amphibious landing in the Philippines. U.S. troops aboard army halftracks on desert in Iran. American paratroopers dropping from C-47 aircraft over France. U.S. soldiers marching through two large gates with cadre of Chinese soldiers in China. American troops fighting in Italy and firing a 155mm howitzer. U.S. infantry following a sherman tank over a war-torn landscape with shells bursting nearby. Crowded, busy street scenes of traffic and pedestrians in Manhattan, New York City, and Chicago, Illinois. Army tanks being manufactured in a Detroit war production plant or factory. A Los Angeles shipyard filled with workers at shift change. Closeups of individual American soldiers in combat helmets. U.S. troops descending rope nets from transport ships to board landing craft, and approaching the beaches of Normandy, France, under fire, on D-day, June 6, 1944. Views of the Statue of Liberty, including closeups.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046102
U.S. wartime propaganda film - Japanese people toil in industry and at warfare unified to help Japan win World War II.

United States propaganda war film about Japan and its people, and its intentions in World War 2. A White actor narrator impersonates as a Japanese man and mocks Americans. “You’ve learned that the Japanese do not show their feelings, nor do I have big teeth and thick glasses- how sad to disillusion you” the narrator mocked. Japanese people work to help Japan win war. Japanese people work on a farm. People row in boats on a lake facing Mount Fuji. Snow-capped Mount Fuji. Volcanic explosion. Japanese soldiers seize the United States flag. Japanese flag flying. Sacred fishes in a pool. Soldiers hold Japanese flags as they cheer Banzai in a victory celebration after battle. Modern buildings in a Japanese city. High altitude view of buildings in an area. Bombardment in a city. Destroyed houses, buildings, and rubble on the ground of Japanese cities. United States warplane aircraft fly in formation. Aerial view of a Japanese city. People walk on the street. Vehicles pass on street. Ship 'Argentina Maru' docked at a Japanese harbor. People sow rice seeds on the farm. Narrator (actor impersonating a Japanese person) mocks Americans as being soft. View in an American town of cars parked along the sides of a main street. American 1940's cars. Jockey's Ball banner. People queue at theater box office and in train stations. United States nightclubs, bars, and casinos. United States people at beach. Japanese industry and munitions factories. Ships underway at sea. United States Marines carry a dead soldier on stretcher. United States Marines coming ashore and Japanese soldiers fighting in Pacific islands such as Guadalcanal and Tarawa. Forces of both sides fire guns and artillery. Smoke from bombardment. Ragged Japanese forces surrendering to United States forces. Japan's best forces shown marching in formation and review. Young Japanese soldiers in training. Japanese children study in a school. Burning Japanese city following attack. Japanese citizen refugees flee, a woman crawls across a railroad track. Japanese girls and boys exercise simultaneously outdoors. Japanese soldiers execute two men (possibly in China?). Prisoners held by Japan in forced labor; others executed. Japanese soldier puts his hat on a little girl, other children playing. Remains of a newborn infant wrapped in cloth lying on the street. Forced laborers from Japanese-occupied countries are made to farm rice. Remains of victims of Japanese forces. Heads of decapitated victims lying on the field. United States prisoners emaciated and injured in the Philippines. A United States soldier wipes his tears after losing an arm. Remains of United States troops, Japanese soldiers, and Asia civilians. Japanese soldiers deploy for war at train station. Map showing Japan, China, Manchuria, and Mongolia. A Type 3 Chi-Nu tank rolling up a fortress in China. Soldiers marching on rice fields and climbing rocky cliffs. Japanese soldiers assume prone position, firing rifles.

Date: 1944
Duration: 15 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051695