50th Indian tank brigade and Yorkshire and Lancashire regiment soldiers carry ammunition and supplies across Kalapanzin River in Buthidaung, Burma. Tanks on raft. British-Indian soldiers stand on raft past tank. Soldiers carry bundle of barbed wire and place it on raft. Japanese held position on the other side of river. British soldiers of the 27th Field Regiment Royal Artillery and 63rd Indian field Company, ferry pontoon raft with guns and ammunition. Water flows in river. Yorkshire and Lancashire regiment soldiers carry ammunition and supply in field and place it on ground. They ferry equipment and supply on sampans, down river. Soldiers push artillery and load United States jeep on sampans and ferry it. (World War II period).
Yorkshire and Lancashire regiment crosses Kalapanzin River in Buthidaung, Burma. Yorkshire and Lancashire regiment soldiers push artillery on pontoon raft. Soldiers push Jeep on raft. Soldiers ferry raft and sampan on water. Soldiers sit and stand on sampan and raft. Sampans at the river bank. Soldiers on sampans play trumpet. (World War II period).
Lord Louis Mountbatten inspects the 51st Brigade of the 25th Indian Division XV corps in forward area of Buthidaung in Burma. British Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia comes. He shakes hand with an officer. Mountbatten speaks with the enlisted men. Lieutenant General S A M Browning, Chief of General staff of South East Asia Command (SEAC) accompanies Mountbatten. (World War II period).
American African American engineers placing TNT charges under trees during construction of Ledo Road in Manpin, Burma. A man adjust lighted fuse. African American engineer runs, stops and watches near tree. Charges go off and trees fall.
African American engineers operate bulldozers , clearing area in the jungle during construction of Ledo Road in Manpin, Burma. Cleared area. A few officers in campaign hats stand. Engineers use wrench on bulldozer. African American engineers operating bulldozer.
A Caterpillar D7 bulldozer working to push fallen trees out of the planned route during construction of Ledo Road in Manpin, Burma. Bulldozer pushing logs into huge pile. A cleared area. A bulldozer pushing dirt.