Office of Strategic Services officers on a military mission in Burma during World War II. Clouds in the sky. Douglas DC-3 transport aircraft in flight. Aerial views of mountains. Interior of the aircraft shows OSS officers in parachute harnesses. The DC-3 aircraft in flight. Aerial views of the ground and the mountains.
Office of Strategic Services officers on a military mission in Burma during World War II. OSS officers in parachute harnesses board a Douglas DC-3 transport aircraft. A personnel boards with a crate. An officer adjusts the position of a gun at a window of the aircraft.
Office of Strategic Services officers on a military mission in Burma during World War II. Douglas DC-3 transport aircraft in flight. OSS officers jump from the DC-3 transport aircraft. Parachutes descend. Interior of the aircraft: OSS officers look out from a window. An officer loads gun shells into guns. DC-3 transport airplanes fly over a forest area. Aerial views of mountains and the ground. Interior of the aircraft shows the officers standing at the door of an aircraft and dropping supplies via parachute.
United States General Joseph Stilwell discusses plan with Major General Frank Dow Merrill during World War 2. Insignia of the China Burma India Theater (CBI). Nationalist Chinese soldiers march toward a United States Army Air Force transport plane to India. USA Army Air Force plane takes off, heading for India. At the U.S. Army Chinese Training and Combat Command at Ramgarh, India, Chinese soldiers train under the United States Army leadership. Aerial view of tents and buildings at Ramgarh. General Stilwell personally instructs Chinese soldiers as they shoot at targets while in prone position. Chinese troops charge out of a trench, crawl with guns under barbed wire, and avoid gun fire and explosions. India Command Formation insignia. British General Archibald Wavell inspects soldiers in formation. General Archibald Wavell shares a map with Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, who was made Commander in Chief, India, for the British. British Indian soldiers seen in training, as they lift logs, jump over obstacles, climb ropes, and practice jumping from a parked airplane fuselage during parachute training. Next, soldiers are seen jumping out of an aircraft in flight with parachutes. British Indian soldiers descending with parachutes. United States soldiers unload supplies. Allied soldiers marching. Indian infantry marching in farmland. Gurkha soldiers from Nepal march with donkeys. Naga headhunters from Assam and northwestern Burma. East and West African soldiers. British colonial regiment, the Burma Rifles marching. Soldiers from the Kachin people of Burma and Southwestern China. Allied soldiers in India coming from various races- Scots, Irish, English, Welsh, Australian, New Zealander, Indian, Gurkha, Burman, African, Chinese and American. Multinational army from Allied countries.
Chinese Air Force 1st American Volunteer Group Flying Tiger pilots in China India Burma Theater during World War II. Flying Tiger pilots grouped on a field are presented with letters and rank bars which they pin on their shirts. Close-up view of Flying Tigers ace pilot Frank Schiel being recognized. U.S. airplanes parked on an airfield in the background. The Commander of Flying Tigers U.S. Lieutenant General Claire Lee Chennault arrives. The pilots conclude a quick briefing and then scramble and run, rushing to United States Army Air Force P-40 Tomahawk fighter airplanes. The P-40s taxi and take off from the airfield. The aircraft in flight.
Animated map showing the map of Texas, USA superimposed on the map of Burma for size comparison. Various Buddhist temples and pagodas in Burma. A pagoda in Mandalay. A busy street in Mandalay. A young Burmese woman smokes a cheroot. A Burmese woman from the Kayan Tribe puts a neck ring on another woman. Aerial view of Burma jungle. During World War 2, United States soldiers make their way through the jungle. A raft crosses a turbulent river in Burma. Mountains on the Himalayan mountain range. Monsoon typhoon in Burma with rain falling on military tents. United States infantry crosses a swamp, hacking away at vines in the jungle with a machete.