Chinese troops trained by OSS (Office of Strategic Services) in China Burma India Theater during World War II. A troop stands holding flags and practice Calisthenics and others look on. The Chinese troops advance in the grassy area. They carry shovels and an OSS officer instructs them. A trainee digs a pit and removes dirt. The troops in camouflaged hat hidden in bushes. They advance slowly. A trainee in a camouflaged hat hidden behind bushes and advances holding a gun.
Chinese troops trained by OSS (Office of Strategic Services) in China Burma India Theater during World War II. The troops go through physical training The troops stand in formation and practice various exercises to strengthen themselves. They swim in a river and come out running . The gun targets . The holes increasing in the target. A close up of an OSS officer.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek reviews United States Women Army in the U.S. She is the first lady of China. She reviews the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), SPARS (United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve) and women marines. They salute the dignitary and march in front of her. An officer near the dignitary discusses with her.
View at ammunition factory in Canada during World War II. Dr. Lu Shumin, Republic of China's Ambassador to Canada, sees small arms ammunition and tanks manufactured by Canadian women and men. A Canadian Chinese woman working at the ammunitions factory. Canadian Chinese woman talks to the Chinese ambassador. A Canadian Ram cruiser tank in production. Dr. Lu Shumin rides the Ram tank. Shows women workers in war production factory and tanks being tested in the snow.
Views of a U.S. Army Air Force C-87 aircraft burning due to short circuit in electrical system. Smoke clouds rising from the aircraft as fire breaks out from the front part of the aircraft. Damaged aircraft lying on the airfield consumed with fire and smoke. (World War II period).
Camera pans over a closeup of British Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival who was captured in the fall of Singapore. American Lieutenant-general Jonathan Wainwright, smoking the stub of a cigar, as he sits with U.S.Major General Edward P. King, Jr. (Both were imprisoned in the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.) A naval officer POW posing in front of a tree. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, in pith helmet, smoking a cigarette. POWs eating and conversing with Japanese interpreters, (One POW appears to be U.S. Brigadier General George F. Moore, who was imprisoned along with Wainright and King, in the Philippines.) View of POWs in a library, where one is reading from a script, while being recorded. Other POWs looking at documents.