United States tanks advance in Burma during World War II. Soldiers on tanks. United States troops and Chinese troops advance in Burma. U.S. troops walk through a wooded area. Soldiers and war dogs patrol in the forest area for retreating Japanese troops. Soldiers feed dogs with food. Dogs eating from soldiers' helmets serving as makeshift bowls. Troops near a Buddhist temple and a river. Troops with donkeys cross a flimsy makeshift bridge over water.
Allied planes fly over Burmese jungles and maintain the supply lines for their forces fighting in the China Burma India Theater during World War II. A British Short Sunderland Flying Boat aircraft flies over jungles in Burma and lands in a lake. Natives on a raft load supplies in the plane from the raft. Another raft arrives with injured soldiers fighting on Burmese front. The wounded taken for treatment in the airplane.
U.S. P-40 Warhawks bomb Japanese positions in Myitkina, Burma during World War 2. Chinese and U.S. officers at an airfield in Burma. U.S. P-40s take off from the airfield to bomb Japanese positions. Formation of p-40s airplanes. They peel off and drop bombs on Japanese positions. Smoke billows up from explosions. U.S. Army General Joseph (Vinegar Joe) Stilwell steps from his C-47 transport airplane (named "Uncle Joe's Chariot") and is greeted by U.S. Army Brigadier General Frank Merrill (of Merrill's Marauders) on an airfield in Kandy, Ceylon, where he is to consult with Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia (SACSEA).
Commander-General Frank Merrill of U.S. 5307th Composite Unit ( nicknamed Merrill's Marauders) in Burma during World War II. Frank Merrill and his men aboard an aircraft over Burma. Merrill looks through binoculars from the door of the aircraft. Parachute supply sacks are dropped from the aircraft.
Chinese troops advance along Burma roads in World War II. An engineer camp site along a road in Burma. An aerial view of the roadside and the troops advancing along the road. The troops and pack trains on a mountain road. The troops with horse-drawn Russian 115 mm artillery piece. A mule team pulls the artillery piece along a hilly section of the road.
Montage of scenes illustrating Office of Strategic Services (OSS) airlift activities in Burma during World War II. C-47 with number 26 on its tail seen on landing roll at an airfield. A C-47 (serial number: 41-19476) with number 33 on its tail. Men in khaki are loading supplies in the aircraft and several wearing parachutes board the aircraft. View of a C-47 with number 42 on its tail taking off from well established airport. A man with parachute stands in open cargo door of the aircraft during takeoff. (This segment of film is reversed.) A C-47, tail number 31 is seen cruising in flight. View from inside an airplane cruising over fog filled valleys and then later over jagged mountains. View of C-47 number 31 from cabin of another C-47. View of passengers inside C-47 cabin. A fighter escort of Two USAAF P-51s passes close to the C-47. Inside a C-47, crew members prepare supplies and then airdrop them behind enemy lines. View from below of supplies being dropped from a C-47. Views of airdrops from inside and outside C-47 aircraft. Commandos including indigenous personnel,parachute from C-47s. Views from camera strapped to leg of one paratrooper. View from ground of a parachutist descending. (Note: C-47 serial number: 41-19476 was assigned to the 10th Air Force, 443rd Troop Carrier Group in Burma, during world War 2, and was lost on on a mission, January 18, 1944, piloted by Ferde A. Larsen, of the 2nd Troop Carrier Squadron.)
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