United States Army soldiers in a market area in India during World War 2. American soldiers move about the market place in India, shop for items, and watch a snake charmer at work. Allied war equipment unloaded at a port and carried away on camel carts into Burma. American tanks being unloaded and transported by rail. Camel caravans hauling boxes of rifles and ammunition. Camels pulling wagons filled with armament. Supplies being loaded into U.S. Army aircraft for delivery to the battle front. British Indian troops move up the jungle terrain in Burma and fight against Japanese troops in World War II. British troops guarding a border railroad. Some British soldiers pop out from a hidden trench at a railroad line with rifles ready (likely training operation). View of an Indian river that narrator says is mined. Indian sappers wire wooden rafts with explosives to float out. American airmen on airfield with Indian temple in background are seen briefing Chinese pilots in training at the airbase. Closeup views of faces of Chinese pilots. Fighter aircraft and bomber aircraft taking off to hold open the Burma road from the air. Aerial view of aircraft propeller spinning on airborne aircraft with Indian city in background. Allied aircraft bombing Japanese positions.
A film shows the Burma China Road as vital link between China and Burma during World War II. Chinese Chairman of Foreign Trade Commission Kwang Pu Chen, also known as K.P. Chen, with other Chinese officials walk out of a building. The Chairman's car moves along the Burma Road. He inspects tung oil storage dump. Oil drums in the area. K.P. Chen and other Chinese officials walk over drums. Chinese workers load the oil drums on a truck. Trucks loaded with the drums leave the dump.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officers train Burmese recruits in Burma during World War II. The students learn the uses of a compass and medical procedures for helping wounded comrades. A Burmese instructor shows them a compass and demonstrates its uses. The students listen as he gives instructions. The instructor demonstrates the uses of a compass on a map on the table. A Burmese recruit stands on a table as another wraps a bandage around his foot to demonstrate medical procedures. An American instructor and the other students observe. The American instructor then demonstrates tying of a bandage around the head. The Burmese instructor guides the students to follow the same steps. The American instructor looks on as the recruits demonstrate plastering a broken arm. He guides the students.
U.S. transport aircraft drop supplies in Burma during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft in flight over a Burmese jungle. A C-47 drops parachute supplies. C-47s in flight.
U.S. transport aircraft drop supplies in Burma during World War II. Chinese soldiers dig a hole in a jungle with hand tools for a charge of dynamite. Kachin native workers look up. The workers extend hands upwards as a U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft drops parachute supplies. U.S. gunner Walter Dawson stands behind a machine gun. U.S. soldiers place dynamite in the hole. Smoke rises as the dynamite explodes. A Chinese soldier stands.
Chinese soldiers fire artillery at enemy positions in Burma during World War II. Chinese soldiers load mortar with shells and fire the same.
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