Soong Mei-ling or Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, leaves for Chongqing (Chungking), China from the United States. Madame Chiang with American Red Cross girls. She walks and speaks to the girls. Madame Chiang and the girls standing at the shore of a beach. Soong Mei-ling meets the U.S. officers and Generals. She is escorted by a Chinese official. Soong Mei-ling enters a car. She gets out of the car and climbs up a ladder. Soong Mei-ling boards C-54 Skymaster. The C-54 takes off for Chongqing. The aircraft in flight. A pilot and crew at controls. A crew member plotting a graph. The pilot at the controls talks. The crew members and the pilot talking.
United States 14th Air Forces in China. Barrels of oil piled up. Chinese people loaded in trucks flee their villages due to Japanese attack. Trucks being repaired as men wok on the engine of the trucks. Chinese civilians and soldiers cross a bridge on foot. Wounded civilians being carried to safe places on litters. Chinese people clog the rail road track as they move to safer places. Chinese men loaded on a rail road train. A Chinese woman with her children. A wounded being carried on a litter. A Chinese man carries luggage. Chinese soldiers board a plane and it takes off. Soldiers advance along a hill. A map of China shows American 14th Air Force action in China. Cars move along Ledo road. Aerial view of the traffic on Ledo road. Figures symbolize number of ships and planes used, dead soldiers, and civilians in the operations against Japanese in China. (World War II period).
Azon Bombs in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. United States Army Air Force personnel unpacks the smoke flares from wooden boxes. Tests of flares and checks their continuity using some meter. In a laboratory a man removes gyroscope which controls the ailerons and rudder from a box to test them. He tests a radio receiver for frequency matching and then installs it in Azon Bomb assembly. Testing of the complete assembly and marking it as correct.
Azon Bombs in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force technicians perform continuity and other tests on various components of Azon Bombs in their laboratory. The indicators and meter readings display the results of the tests. Technicians with badges on their uniform check and assemble a tail section of an Azon Bomb. Another technician fills the check sheet.
Azon Bombs in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. A U.S. Army Air Force technician in uniform works with multiple tail sections of Azon Bombs kept in a series on a wooden board. He attaches smoke flares and fastens the screws with the tail sections using a screw driver. He makes entries in his record book.
Azon Bombs in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. B-24 bomber of the United States Army Air Force gets ready for an operation. Personnel loading the turret guns in the nose of a B-24 bomber. Airmen work and check its engines and other parts. A truck arrives near the bomber. Men roll bombs down from the truck. Men start attaching the bomb with the wings of B-24. A tanker fills the fuel tank of the bomber.