Allied preparations to attack Japanese positions in China. A rail road train pulls up. Men load boxes onto trucks. Barrels are also loaded. A freight train on the move. Barrels being unloaded from barges. A Chinese woman rows a boat. (World War II period).
Allied preparations to attack Japanese positions in China. A man dressed as Santa Claus in the cockpit of an aircraft. He distributes gifts to American airmen. A United States Army Air Forces plane flies low over an area and drops bombs over a Japanese airfield. Bombs impact and explosion occurs. (World War II period).
Allied attack on Japanese positions in China. United States B-24 bombers in flight. A gunner looks through the lens of a gun. Bombs are released and impact. Explosion occurs. An American aircraft taxis along the runway. Airmen of 1st American Volunteer Group lined up for a commission ceremony as General Claire Lee Chennault puts an insignia onto an airmen. (World War II period).
River travel in China. Several Chinese boats in a river which runs between high mountains. Natives on shore pull boats upstream. Laborers pull boats from mountain roads. Laborers strain to pull the craft. A man sits on boat with an oar.
Film opens as camera pans over views of factory buildings in China after World War 2.. Closeup of a Chinese soldier pointing to a sign posted on a wooden building reading "U.N.R.R.A. It Is Belonged To Our Office. No Admittance To Anybody Or Armies To Enter." (UNRRA refers to the United Nation Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.) Views inside an abandoned factory with remains of product scattered about as if occupants left in a hurry. Camera pans over outside of factory buildings that all seem quite intact.
A group of Chinese Nationalist (KMT) and several American soldiers are gathered in the courtyard of a building in an industrial area of China during the 2nd Sino-Japanese War (World War 2). After conversing, they disperse and camera pans across surrounding compound that looks like it could house soldiers or workers. Another view of the American and Chinese soldiers conversing. Views of industrial buildings with smoke stacks. Corpse of a dead person lying on the ground near damaged building. View through hole in brick side of the building. Interior is strewn with debris.More views of damaged buildings in low-walled compound.