Natives learn to build airstrips in India for Allied Forces. Indians using primitive tools. Indian women are also seen working to build air field runways and landing strips. A U.S. Army B-25 bomber aircraft lands and taxis. General MacArthur, General Krueger and General Rupertus inspect newly won positions in New Guinea. In Burma British and Indian troops advance. Explosions seen as British Army forces fire mortars. (World War II period).
Activities of Japanese soldiers in Southeast Asia during World War II. A relief map of India, China and Indochina shows the locations of Rangoon and Mandalay in Burma (Myanmar). Japanese soldiers march along a dirt road. Trucks parked along the side of a road. Japanese troops march. Burmese civilians standing on the side of a road wave flags. A Burmese civilian fill vessels with water for Japanese horses to drink. Burmese man give Japanese soldiers water to drink. The troops march in the background. Two Japanese soldiers drink water from canteens. Japanese soldiers and U.S. prisoners of war seated on the ground. A Japanese officer points to a piece of paper and discusses. The soldiers marching on a street move past a sign which reads: 'Mandalay 82 Mi-Rangoon 348 Mi'. A Japanese soldier pushes a dump truck up a steep grade on a road. Japanese officers and a car in the background. A photographer and a medium tank in the background. A Japanese soldier drives steel wedges into the ground behind a piece of field artillery. The Japanese fire the field artillery. A column of smoke rises. Japanese tanks drive down a dirt road. The field artillery being pulled by Japanese soldiers. The soldiers march carrying Japanese flags. Demolished buildings in the foreground. Freight cars on a siding, bomb crates near railroad tracks. Japanese medium tanks advance over the railroad tracks.
Soldiers ride army mules in Burma. The mules ferried across Mogaung River in Burma. Supplies brought from India loaded on mules and then on train. Timber trees fallen by 779th Engineers. They place lumber on truck and stock for transportation. (World War II period).
Ledo Road in Burma is viewed by U.S. Army Generals during World War II. U.S. Army engineer Colonel Lewis A. Pick and Commanding General Services of Supply U.S. China-Burma-India Theater of Operations William Edward Raab Covell arrive in an army transport plane. They are greeted by U.S. Army engineer Colonel Joseph Green and Lieutenant Colonel Harold A Whittier. Generals in jeep being driven on Ledo Road. Generals view Ledo Road.
Arrivals of U.S. Army officials at Myitkyina Airfield, Burma during World War II. C-47s taxi on Myitkyina Airfield. U.S. Army engineer Colonel Lewis A. Pick and Commanding General Services of Supply U.S. China-Burma-India Theater of Operations William Edward Raab Covell arrive in army transport plane. Generals are greeted by Lieutenant Colonel Hirschfield, Myitkyina Base Service of Supply CO (Commanding Officer). General Covell promotes Lieutenant Colonel Hirschfield to full Colonel.
Aerial views of jungle. Canal through jungle. Stinson L-5 Sentinel airplane in flight over jungle during World War II. Close view of L-5 Pilot. It flies low over water. Sign reads 'Headquarters Air Jungle Rescue'.