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U.S. Lieutenant General Daniel I. Sultan explains why troops are needed in India and Burma during World War II
World War II film about the China, Burma, India (CBI) Theater of Operations. A soldier is seen filling out a form seeking information about him and inviting him to write in questions about anything he hadn't learned through normal information channels. Scene shifts to Information and Education Department of the Burma-India Command, where it is being processed by a soldier. Lieutenant General Dan I. Sultan, commander of Burma-India Theater, is seen next, seated at a desk, with wall map of the region behind him. He is appearing in an information film intended to inform troops under his command. He notes that more than half the troops who filled out the information form, asked why American troops were stationed in India and Burma. He refers to the recent recall of General Stillwell and the splitting of CBI into two theaters (China and India/Burma). He states that the purpose is a path toward Japan. An animated map shows China (that narrator notes has been fighting Japan since 1937). Animation shows Japan walling off China from the outside world, by seizing her ports, and then concentrating its grip on the Eastern part of the country. Without access by sea, the allies had only one option to assist China in the fight against Japan. That was to open the Burma Road. Film shifts to scenes of Japanese bombing of Shanghai and Chinese civilians abandoning the city. Wounded and injured Chinese fighting fires while tending casualties in an open area. Glimpse of Chinese soldiers near one of their few large artillery pieces. A gun crew manning one of her few antiaircraft guns. Chinese jam road in trek to the unoccupied provinces of the country. Chinese carrying casualties on stretchers, making do without ambulances. Chinese coping in the face of all kinds of shortages. In contrast, well supplied Japanese troops are shown in formation. Japanese troops, military vehicles and equipment are seen. Japanese firing machine guns and heavy artillery against Chinese positions. Japanese armor and long lines of troops engaged against the Chinese, who continue to resist in spite of shortages and hardship. Chinese soldiers without shoes, marching in a column.
Scenes from World War 1, and world events in the period between World War I and World War II.
Rail guns firing in World War 1. U.S. troops charging out of trenches. Allied gunners firing "French 75s" Allied twin-tailed biplane bombers. French Renault F17 tanks. Crowds in cities celebrate Armistice Day and end of World War I. Treaty of Versailles. Destruction of warships. Scenes of Paris. A pagoda in Japan. Temples in Siam, China, and Manchuria. Two Kayan women in Myanmar or Thailand perform a dance. Both Kayan women wear long brass coil neck rings. In the U.S., a boy hits a baseball and runs toward first base. Scenes of Japan invading Manchuria. Newspaper with headline: Henry Stimson denouncing Japan. U.S. Army troops dispel World War I veteran bonus marchers. Men lined up in bread line for unemployed during Great Depression. Brief shot of Gangsters in gun battle in an American city. Scenes of dust bowl in American with farmers and families heading West in caravans. Family standing by tent. Torchlight parade in Germany. Adolf Hitler standing with German President Hindenburg circa 1933. Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Victor Lutze, at 1934 Nazi Rally in Nuremberg. Italian Caproni bombers over Ethiopia. Ethiopian tribesmen and Haile Selassie. U.S.Neutrality Act. American youths with a 1930 Ford coupe. Scenes from Civil war in Spain. Spanish Rebel forces in ground combat with Nationalist forces. German and Italian aircraft participate in bombing Spanish Nationalist targets in Spanish Civil War. Spanish civilians flee bombing, tend to wounded and dead victims following bombings. Italian Savoia-Marchetti S.M.79 Sparviero bombers. Crowds running for shelter. Women and children victims of bombing, some crying and in shock. Spanish General Francisco Franco arrives by train in southern France to meet with Hitler. View of Gallup Poll forms, and findings, with Americans against entering European war and preferring neutrality. Japanese planes and warships attack China. Naval Chinese civilians run for cover; bodies of Chinese in trucks. Japanese freighters, Buenos Aires and Tatsuno Maru, in U.S. ports being loaded with scrap iron and metals. Hitler, Goering and other officers in 1938. Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier, Benito Mussolini, Count Ciano sign Munich Agreement. Hitler riding standing up in an open car during a rally in Germany. Elevated view of Los Angeles, then view of traffic on streets of Los Angeles California and newspapers being sold to pedestrians. View of faces of American citizens in a movie theater watching Confessions of a Nazi Spy. German-American Bund activities including outdoor rallies in the U.S. (Camp Siegfried in Yaphank, Long Island, New York, in 1937), and an indoor rally in New York City at Madison Square Garden in 1939. Emperor Hirohito reviewing World War 2 troops of Japan. Japanese steel production and arms production in Japanese factories. The Hokoku Maru Japanese ship being launched with fanfare from Tama Shipyards on July 5, 1939. Meeting of United States Military Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives in late 1939 to consider national defense matters. In meeting of Naval Affairs Committee, representative asks for increase of 25 percent in authorized naval tonnage.
Two crashed U.S. Navy R5D aircraft near U.S. Navy Air Base in Tsingtao, China
Tsingtao (Qingdao) Shantung Province, China. Camera pans over a hilltop with foliage and several buildings, near the U.S. Navy Air Base at Tsingtao (Qingdao) Shantung Province, China. It focuses on several sailors standing near a completely destroyed Navy R5D (Douglas DC-4) aircraft. The outer wings are missing and its four engines have been removed. While panning the wreckage, the camera picks up part of a tail number reading:" 80395." To the right, another aircraft fuselage is seen. Strips of aluminum are missing from it. It also appears to be a Navy R5D. A view of the cockpit shows the two control yokes missing from their pedestals. (Apparently salvageable parts have been removed from these crashed aircraft by Navy personnel.)
Chinese communist May Day parade, Mao Zedong portraits, and Huang Yongsheng in Guangzhou (Canton), China
Chinese people celebrate International Workers' Day (also known as Labor Day or “May Day”) in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province (Canton, Kwangtung Province) China. Workers carry a large portrait of Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, during a Labor Day parade. Other workers are holding Cultural Revolution propaganda banners, and smaller sized portraits of Chairman Mao. A large crowd gathers for Labor Day parade. Chinese women and girls perform gymnastics. A traditional lion dance performance alongside modern gymnastics. Boys cheering while they hold a Maoist banner. The boys are seen holding their copies of the “Little Red Book” by Mao Zedong. Guangdong Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee Secretary Huang Yongsheng delivers a speech to the crowd. Crowds raise their arms with their “Little Red Book” copies during the speech. Crowds cheering under a large portrait of Mao Zedong. Two flags of the People’s Republic of China flank the Mao Zedong portrait.
Chinese workers read the “Little Red Book” during the May Day celebrations in China
Chinese workers celebrate International Workers' Day (also known as Labor Day or “May Day”) in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province (Canton, Kwangtung Province) China. Workers’ parade in Guangzhou. Parade participants crowd streets and carry Maoist banners and placards. Chinese workers holding up pictures of Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, during a Labor Day parade. Musicians play instruments in a moving cart. A Chinese man wearing glasses beating drums. Chinese women marching with communist banners. Vertical signs are tied to floating balloons. A huge crowd gather with banners and signage. A large portrait of Mao Zedong stands in the middle of the crowd. A large portrait of Mao Zedong on display on a stage. Two flags of the People’s Republic of China flank the Mao Zedong portrait. Cultural Revolution propaganda in various posters and banners in the May Day parade. Chinese palace lantern on display. Musicians playing trumpets and flutes in the middle of the crowd. A Chinese communist musician with trumpet. Chinese spectators waving with their copies of the "Little Red Book" (“Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung”) by Mao Zedong. Mass of Chinese people reciting from the "Little Red Book" together. Chinese Communist Party officials crowd the May Day stage. A large portrait of Mao Zedong hangs above the officials. Crowds of Chinese workers clapping and cheering. Chinese women wearing factory attire cheering and holding copies of the “Little Red Book”. Young Chinese teenagers attend the parade, some raising their arms. Musicians beating drums. Smoke covers the whole surroundings during the parade. Crowds wave pom-poms and hold communist banners and side portraits of Mao Zedong.
Persimmon orchards with trees on which commercial variety fruits are borne on wild persimmon stalks in Chihli province, China.
A documentary titled 'Persimmon Harvest' in Chihli province in China. A few men outside a building with baggages. The men load the baggages on to a donkey. Persimmon orchards in Chihli province. A few men and children beside the trees in an orchard. The trees in the orchard on which seedlings of 'Black Date' or wild persimmon (Diospyros lotus) are used as stalks upon which the commercial varieties are worked. A man holds a fruiting branch of wild persimmon in his left hand and the fruit of a commercial variety in his right hand. A man beside a tree bark which shows the union of wild persimmon and cultivated one. Rows of trees in the orchard. Branches of trees bearing fruits. A man pointing to a girdled or a ring-barked tree which induces fruitfulness.
