Japanese aggression during the Second Sino-Japanese War leads China to enter World War II. Fighting in and around Nanking (Nanjing), China. Japanese soldiers advance forward. Chinese soldiers behind a wall load and fire artillery. The Japanese invade the city. Japanese soldiers move through rubbles. They celebrate after conquering the city. Japanese tanks and troops advance. Japanese atrocities as they rape the woman and torture and kill the civilians. Dead civilians on the streets. Japanese Emperor Hirohito gets off a plane and salutes. A Chinese man carries a dead body. A lady wails. Injured civilians in the hospitals and on the streets. Chinese people holding banners protest and demonstrate against the Japanese. A saying of Chiang Kai-shek and other Chinese men demonstrating against Japanese imperialism.
U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace visits China during World War II. Generalissimo of the Nationalistic Government of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek in Chungking (Chongqing) to greet the U.S. Vice President. An aircraft lands and Henry Wallace disembarks from it. He is greeted by dignitaries. At a Red Cross Service Men's Club, he is greeted by Red Cross workers. Wallace shakes hands with U.S. soldiers and plays volleyball with them. He visits an orphanage with Madame Chiang (Soong Mei-ling) and other dignitaries. The girls at the orphanage. At Chiang Kai-shek's summer residence, a reception is given in Vice President's honor.
United States Military Mission visits the Chinese Communist headquarters and meets its leaders in Yan'an, Shaanxi province in China during World War II. An animated map of China. Horse drawn carts and natives walk on a hillside in a village. The American soldiers walk with Communist leaders and Chinese military officers to a countryside village. Chinese Communist leaders at the village smile and talk with the soldiers of American Mission.
U.S. Military Mission visits Communist headquarters and meets its leaders in Yenan, Shensi province, China during World War II. Chinese officers and General Patrick Hurley prepare strategies for combat with Japanese posts in China. General Hurley transmits a message on radio equipment. Chinese soldiers at a military base. Posters of Chinese Communist leaders and leaders of Allied nations like Franklin D Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and others.
A map of China shows Liuchow in World War II. Chinese refugees and troops travel on roads from Liuchow. Chinese refugees eat food in a village. The refugees wander through the villages. Mass evacuation of refugees. Several children sit in a hand lorry. The wounded are treated.
U.S. Military Mission visits Communist headquarters in Yan'an, Shaanxi province in China during World War II. A U.S. Army Air Force plane in flight makes landing at an Allied air base. Soldiers and commanders disembark from the plane as the natives watch. The soldiers talk to each other. Soldiers board trucks and other soldiers walk on roads to reach a Communist headquarter. American officers meet Communist leaders Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Ye Jianying, Chen Yi, Nie Rongzhen, Lin Biao, Peng Dehuai and others with warmth.