A camp set up in a Burmese jungle by Allied soldiers during World War II. A sign reads 'Fort Stinker Main Gate'. A soldier drinks coffee. Mortar crew cleans its weapon. Various Allied soldiers and native men on a field.
Evacuation of U.S. Army Air Force crew members at a camp site in a Burmese jungle during World War II. Soldiers run towards a wrecked U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain airplane on a field. An injured crewman lies on a stretcher beside the wrecked C-47. The injured is loaded aboard a light airplane and is evacuated. The airplane takes off. A soldier makes out a tag for another wounded crewman who is loaded aboard a light airplane. The light airplane taxis and takes off from a jungle airstrip.
A military cemetery in a Burmese jungle during World War II. Bamboo crosses in the military cemetery in which members of U.S. Army Rangers 'Merrill's Marauders' 5307th Composite Unit are buried. Allied soldiers set up bamboo crosses in the cemetery.
Three Imperial Japanese Army light bombers (likely Mitsubishi Ki-51 Sonia Type 99 Assault Planes) drop bombs over Rangoon (present-day Yangon, Myanmar) during World War 2. Explosion from dropped bombs. Burmese child runs away. A child rides on the back of his mother running away from bombing. Japanese bombers drop more bombs over buildings in Rangoon, destroying them. Buildings on fire due to Japanese bombings. Huge fire in roof of building. Burmese refugees sit on roof of moving train cars as railroad train moves down track. Farmland on fire. Rangoon’s destroyed buildings after Japanese bombings. Buddhist statues surrounded by debris.
A single funnel freighter, with two masts, is seen sinking from the stern, in U.S. waters, in 1919. Her aft section is already under water, with only her stern mast visible. There is no sign of life aboard the ship. Film is taken from another vessel nearby, that is rising and falling with surface waves. The sinking ship is going under rapidly, sternfirst. Next, only her bow is seen as it starts to slip beneath the surface of the water, rotating slightly to starboard, as she goes straight down, and disappears from view. (The clip is only 24 seconds long and no other information is available.)
March 1943: A map shows Salamaua in Papua New Guinea. An aircraft drops supplies with parachutes over hills. An Australian parachute packing depot. Soldiers pack parachutes on tables in rows. Stacked Australian parachutes to deliver rations, American parachutes used for Ammunition, and 24 foot parachutes for regulation. White parachutes used for medical supplies, blue ones used for rations and red used for ammunition supplies. Aerial view of Goodview, an area of conflict. A soldier radios the requirements to base. Another soldier delivers the plan to the depot. Soldiers pack mortar ammunition. The fuses and sheets are packed together in boxes. Soldiers put boxes into sacks, tie the sacks and attach parachutes. Soldiers pack canned meat: lay straw in big cans, put small cans into those, seal the big cans, secure them with a wiring machine, and attach parachutes. Sacks of rice are put into copper sacks, their mouths tied. Soldiers pack rations including onions, bacon and potatoes for delivery. Supplies are loaded onto trucks and transferred to the aerodrome. (World War II period).
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