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Chinese people engaged in the daily chores in Shaanxi Province in China during World War II

Chinese civilians indulge in household work in China. A mountain valley in China. Small houses in the valley and on the foot of the mountains. Children play with three pigs in front of a house. A man separates grain. Women spins while children sit along with them. Many homes,called "Yaodongs"are created from hollowing out the sides of the mountains.

Location: Shaanxi Province China
Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046860
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.

Location: China
Date: 1944, October 27
Duration: 5 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025194
Officers of U.S. Military Mission in Yenan plan strategies at a base in Shensi province, China during World War II.

U.S. Military Mission visits Communist headquarters and meets its leaders in Yenan, Shensi province, China during World War II. Chinese officers and General Patrick Hurley prepare strategies for combat with Japanese posts in China. General Hurley transmits a message on radio equipment. Chinese soldiers at a military base. Posters of Chinese Communist leaders and leaders of Allied nations like Franklin D Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and others.

Location: Shensi China
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056691
Medics and nurses work at Bethune International Peace Hospital in Hebei Province of China.

Bethune International Peace Hospital in Hebei Province in China. A bust sculpture of Dr. Norman Bethune,outside the hospital. Medics take a patient on a stretcher. Doctors work at the hospital and teach.. A nurse records temperature of a woman. Babies sleep in beds Nurse sits with a baby in her lap. Nurses weigh a baby. Children wipe utensils. Nurses play with children.

Location: Hebei Province China
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046862
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.

Location: Hebei Province China
Date: 1944
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046858
Officers of U.S. Military Mission view native dance and cultural shows in Yenan, Shensi province, China.

U.S. Military Mission visits Communist headquarters and meets its leaders in Yenan, Shensi province, China during World War II. Natives perform a dance show as Chinese soldiers and officers of the American mission watch them. A Chinese artist sings songs and dances. Cultural performance by men and women. Children sing and play. Chinese soldiers display training and gymnastics. U.S. officers applaud to the performance. Chinese women display their artifacts and smile.

Location: Shensi China
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056684
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