Office of Strategic Services (OSS) activities in Burma during World War II. An aircraft in flight overhead. Supplies and equipment are dropped from the aircraft. Graves in a field. Men standing nearby. Parts of a wrecked aircraft. An officer instructs the natives about the use of parachutes. Men standing near the graves of the men who died in an airplane crash. The wrecked airplane on the field. An aircraft in flight overhead. Aerial view of the area. Supplies are dropped with the help of parachutes. The parachutes descend towards the land.
Jungle Rescue mission in Burma. A U.S. soldier talks into radio in wooded area. Soldier goes to site of a crashed Stinson L-5 plane. Close view of U.S. star symbol on the plane. (World War II period).
Members of 10th Air Jungle Detachment seen in Burma, during World War II. Stinson L-5 Sentinel planes in flight over jungle. U.S. airmen smoking and eating on ground. Close view of a Burmese child. Airmen discuss a map. One cleans his feet in a helmet full of water.
A U.S. B-25H of the 1st Air Commando Group, 10th Air Force, in Burma-India theater, during World War 2. It taxis and takes off. Separate view of pilot Robert R. Martin in cockpit of aircraft with name "Old Flaherty" under the canopy and insignia of the 10th Air Jungle Rescue Detachment. View of Curtiss C-46A-40-U Commando aircraft parked in rough field. B-25 flies low over the field, buzzing it several times. Indigenous people on the ground pull prop through and the C-46 starts engines, taxis, and takes off. It makes a low pass over the field as those on ground wave.
Views from inside Army Sikorsky YR-4B helicopter of the 10th Air Jungle Rescue Detachment, being piloted by Lieutenant Carter Harmon in Burma, during World War 2. The jungle is seen as a blur in some views. The back of Lt. Harmon's head can be seen.
Ground crewmen perform maintenance on the engines and other portions of a B-25 from the 10th Air Jungle Rescue Detachment in Burma during World War 2.