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.
Draftees are trained for army in the United States during World War II. A U.S. officer recruits men for army. Men including farmers, fishermen, clerks and factory workers walk in lines. Men run on ground with wooden guns as they undergo training. Men drive trucks. Men learn to load guns. The draftees are inducted and trained. Men from different United Nations member countries including America, Russia, China, German, Czech Republic, Greece, India, Dutch, Philippines and French get trained and prepared for war.
A U.S. B-25H of the 1st Air Commando Group, 10th Air Force, in Burma-India theater, during World War 2. It taxis and takes off. Separate view of pilot Robert R. Martin in cockpit of aircraft with name "Old Flaherty" under the canopy and insignia of the 10th Air Jungle Rescue Detachment. View of Curtiss C-46A-40-U Commando aircraft parked in rough field. B-25 flies low over the field, buzzing it several times. Indigenous people on the ground pull prop through and the C-46 starts engines, taxis, and takes off. It makes a low pass over the field as those on ground wave.
Activities of Japanese soldiers in Southeast Asia during World War II. A relief map of India, China and Indochina shows the locations of Rangoon and Mandalay in Burma (Myanmar). Japanese soldiers march along a dirt road. Trucks parked along the side of a road. Japanese troops march. Burmese civilians standing on the side of a road wave flags. A Burmese civilian fill vessels with water for Japanese horses to drink. Burmese man give Japanese soldiers water to drink. The troops march in the background. Two Japanese soldiers drink water from canteens. Japanese soldiers and U.S. prisoners of war seated on the ground. A Japanese officer points to a piece of paper and discusses. The soldiers marching on a street move past a sign which reads: 'Mandalay 82 Mi-Rangoon 348 Mi'. A Japanese soldier pushes a dump truck up a steep grade on a road. Japanese officers and a car in the background. A photographer and a medium tank in the background. A Japanese soldier drives steel wedges into the ground behind a piece of field artillery. The Japanese fire the field artillery. A column of smoke rises. Japanese tanks drive down a dirt road. The field artillery being pulled by Japanese soldiers. The soldiers march carrying Japanese flags. Demolished buildings in the foreground. Freight cars on a siding, bomb crates near railroad tracks. Japanese medium tanks advance over the railroad tracks.
Medics carry Chinese casualties on stretchers to a makeshift hospital in Northern Burma during World War II. U.S. General Joseph Stilwell looks at the wounded being brought in. British surgeon Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Seagrave treats wounded Nationalist Chinese casualty. Army doctors and Burmese nurses treating casualties at a makeshift hospital. Wounded soldiers being brought in at night. A Burmese nurse talks to a patient. Gordon Seagrave treats a patient. An army doctor tucks a patient. Wounded Nationalist Chinese soldier smoking cigarette. A patient sleeps on his stomach in a hammock in Ledo, Assam, India.
Dropping of U.S. OWI (Office of War Information) leaflets by U.S. plane on retreating Japanese troops in Burma during World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell bomber parked on airfield in Burma. Propellers turning. B-25 taxis and takes off from airstrip. B-25 flies over Burmese jungle.