A film based on supplying observation posts of the Allies in jungles of Assam-Burma frontier during World War II. U.S. soldiers on a lookout post in trees. U.S. troops wait for the supplies to be dropped by a U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain airplane. Native people look through binoculars. Signal crew lays a strip of white cloth. A man gives smoke signals. The C-47 lowers the altitude and drops parachute supplies. The airplane circles the area and more containers are released. Crates are gathered by men and supplies are taken to camps. The C-47 repeats the same procedure at the second and the third camp site.
A camp set up in a Burmese jungle by Allied soldiers during World War II. A sign reads 'Fort Stinker Main Gate'. A soldier drinks coffee. Mortar crew cleans its weapon. Various Allied soldiers and native men on a field.
Evacuation of U.S. Army Air Force crew members at a camp site in a Burmese jungle during World War II. Soldiers run towards a wrecked U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain airplane on a field. An injured crewman lies on a stretcher beside the wrecked C-47. The injured is loaded aboard a light airplane and is evacuated. The airplane takes off. A soldier makes out a tag for another wounded crewman who is loaded aboard a light airplane. The light airplane taxis and takes off from a jungle airstrip.
A military cemetery in a Burmese jungle during World War II. Bamboo crosses in the military cemetery in which members of U.S. Army Rangers 'Merrill's Marauders' 5307th Composite Unit are buried. Allied soldiers set up bamboo crosses in the cemetery.
A military film report on the advance of Merrill's Marauders (officially named 5307th Composite Unit) towards Myitkyina, Burma and recruitment and training of natives during World War II. Members of Detachment 101 of the Office of Strategic Services aboard a U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain airplane in flight over Burma. Merill's Marauders and native rangers in Burma. Animated map highlights advance towards Japanese-held town of Myitkyina.
A military film report on the advance of Merrill's Marauders towards Myitkyina, Burma during World War II. Members of U.S. Army 5307th Composite Unit nicknamed Merrill's Marauders and native rangers on a hilly terrain during their advance towards Myitkyina. U.S. Army General Frank Merrill stands with other members of Merrill's Marauders and watches a dance of the native people. Merrill's Marauders dance with native rangers.
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