U.S. Military Mission visits Communist headquarters and meets its leaders in Yenan, Shensi province, China during World War II. Chinese soldiers capture a Japanese outpost. Mules carry the weapons and equipment seized from Japanese outpost. Large number of rifles, machine guns, mortar launchers, radio stations and supplies seized during battle displayed by soldiers. Japanese prisoners captured by Chinese soldiers during the battle.
A United States aircraft in flight over the Himalayas in Jorhat, India. An animated map shows places like Calcutta and Burma. Supplies are loaded onto a United States Army Air Force ( USAAF ) C-87 airplane. The aircraft in flight over the Naga Hills. Aerial views of the terrain between Jorhat and Kunming. A Chinese farmland in view. The supplies are unloaded at an airfield in Kunming, China. They are transferred to a truck parked nearby. A USAAF C-46 parked on the airfield. Drums of aviation gasoline are unloaded. The C-46 takes off.
Workers at salt mines in Tze-Kung, China. Natural gas from the wells is used for evaporation process. The workers move carrying wrought iron basins. Liquid poured into the wrought iron basins. The liquid in the wrought iron basins boiled during reduction process. Soy bean juice is added to remove impurities. The scum is skimmed off and evaporated to form salt. A map showing China. Salt is poured over the map. Horses carrying baggages moving on a road. A hand cart loaded with sacks is pushed by men on a street. Several men moving about on the road. Boats anchored at the bank of a water body. A number of people on the bank. Aerial views of the boats on the bank.
Bethune International Peace Hospital in Hebei Province in China. A bust sculpture of Dr. Norman Bethune,outside the hospital. Medics take a patient on a stretcher. Doctors work at the hospital and teach.. A nurse records temperature of a woman. Babies sleep in beds Nurse sits with a baby in her lap. Nurses weigh a baby. Children wipe utensils. Nurses play with children.
Inhabitance in mountain village, Shaanxi Province, China. Houses carved out of mountain side (called "Yaodongs"). Valley under the foot of a mountain. Huts and houses in the valley. A man grazes domestic animals. A building in the village. Bactrian Camels loaded with luggage, a man walks along side.
Well diggers in Tze-Kung, China. Men shape large well drill bit using sledge hammers. Workers using their feet to raise and lower the drill, while one man rotates it by hand. Brine surges forth when they succeed in drilling.Harnessed cattle provide power to raise brine to top of tower in conveyers, from where it is distributed to reservoirs by gravity. Bamboo pipes used in place of metal pipes to transport brine. The workers covering the bamboo pipes with clay-like mud. The pipes laid along long distances.