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C-47 drop rations for Karen troops in a jungle and laborers supervised by soldiers carry supplies from drop zone in Burma.
101st Detachment of Karen troops in Chaungtha, Burma during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain in flight. The aircraft drops rations for Karen soldiers in a jungle. Several view of aircraft in flight dropping food supplies. Burmese workers being supervised by soldiers carry supplies from drop zones. The coolies carry food supplies using a wooden stick. A laborer tying supplies on a stick. They carry food supplies on the stick. The laborers collecting supplies at a particular place in the jungle.
U.S. OWI (Office of War Information) leaflets being dropped by U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell plane in Shan village, Burma.
Dropping of U.S. OWI (Office of War Information) leaflets by U.S. plane on retreating Japanese troops in Shan village, Burma during World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell bomber in flight. Aerial view of B-25 dropping leaflets over village. Pilot in cockpit of B-25. Aerial view of mountainous terrain and jungle.
Construction of India-Burma-China Pipeline during World War II
Opening scene shows a large transport ship at a dock in Calcutta, India, during World War 2. It is surrounded by cranes unloading it. In the foreground, numerous sections of pipe are piled up on the dock. Closeup of group of pipe sections being lifted by crane from the ship's hold. Some individual pipes are seen moved by groups of Indian workers carrying them over their heads. Other Indian workers roll pipe sections onto barges that are seen clustered together near a steel bridge. A convoy of trucks is seen carrying the pipe sections along the Ledo road. Some bundles of pipe sections are carried on jeeps. View of an Army Air Forces C-47 transport plane taking off. Sections of pipe being offloaded from a C-47 plane. Numerous pipe sections in organized stacks near the airfield. Sections of pipe being fastened together. Engineers re-condition the road bed using construction equipment. Long connected pipe lines being pulled through water. Caterpillar tractors working on a muddy section of the road. Workers installing pipe near graves of workers who died from disease and other causes. Workers sending a bundle of pipe segments across a river by means of a Zip line. A worker's camp of tents in the background. Workers dressed in rain gear and boots carrying a pipe section through water during the Monsoon. Workers using machetes to chop their way through jungles. An open utility train moving Chinese troops along a single-track rail line, passes pipeline workers standing aside. Engineers and other pipeline workers distributing pipe sections along the rail line from railroad flatcars. Trucks driving the road, in Burma. Various views of the pipeline in including one showing lines of pipe forming a suspension bridge across a river. Other scenes show the pipeline crossing ravines, submerged under rivers, climbing vertical cliffs. Aerial views of the pipeline from low flying aircraft. A vehicle marshaling yard filled with army vehicles. M3A3 Stuart light tank moving past a yard filled with them. Army trucks moving out of their parking yard. Aerial view of large airfield with many parked Air Transport Command C-47 airplanes. B-29 bombers being refueled at an airfield. One is seen taking off. Lieutenant General Daniel Isom Sultan, Commander India-Burma theater, comments that the pipeline is a lifeline to our beleaguered ally and that the Chinese are in on this. Views of Chinese soldiers engaged against Japanese forces. They fire artillery pieces and heavy machine guns. British soldiers carrying Bren guns and struggling to move artillery pieces in the mud. They are seen firing artillery from under camouflage canopies and firing Vickers machine guns. Aerial view of the British controlled port in Calcutta, India, where war materiel is seen being unloaded. Tanks being transported on an Indian railroad. War supplies moving on a barge line and on roads. View of a British airfield in India. North Burma Chinese troops with their weapons and army vehicles. U.S. troops advancing on roads in the jungles. Chinese Marshal Chiang Kai-shek with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, at the Cairo Conference of November 22–26, 1943. General Sultan concludes the film by reassuring American soldiers that they are in the China-Burma-India theater in the common allied effort to fight against Japan.
Medics cure patients at 42nd portable surgical hospital in Myitkyina Airdrome, Burma.
Medics cure patients at 42nd portable surgical hospital in Myitkyina Airdrome, Burma. A wounded soldier on a bed. Surgeon administers anesthetic to soldier's leg. Shell fragment is removed from the wound. The soldier's leg bandaged and plaster cast. Medics take the patient on a stretcher. (World War II period).
Chinese and United States officers siting in a shack in Myitkyina Airdrome, Burma.
Chinese and United States officers sit in a shack in Myitkyina Airdrome, Burma. They consult maps on the table. A soldiers sits with a gun nearby them. Other talks on the phone. A soldier hears a hand radio. Soldiers talk amongst themselves. They point places in the map. Binoculars on the table. (World War II period).
P-40's bomb Japanese installations near airdrome in Myitkyina Airdrome, Burma.
P-40's bomb Japanese installations near airdrome in Myitkyina Airdrome, Burma. P-40 airplane in flight. It flies over a field. An electricity tower in the field. (World War II period).