OSS (Office of Strategic Services) activities in Burma during World War II. A Douglas C-47 Skytrain with agents aboard lands in India. Men load supplies onto C-47. OSS personnel board the C-47. C-47 taxis and takes off to go behind Japanese lines in Burma. C-47 in flight. Aerial views of Burmese mountain terrain. Clouds on mountain. Views of rocky terrain. Supplies are dropped from plane. Parachutists jump from the plane.
Narrated News Reel footage. Wounded Chinese soldiers at a frontline hospital in Burma during World War II. Animated map shows Yupbang, Burma. U.S. Army General Joseph W. Stilwell watches Chinese casualties evacuated to a hospital near the frontline. Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave attends to the wounded Chinese soldiers in the field hospital. Burmese nurses with a wounded Chinese soldier. The American doctor and the Burmese nurses treat the casualties. A wounded Chinese soldier in a body cast. Chinese soldiers are transferred on stretchers and are loaded into a U.S. L-4 airplane flown by the 71st Liaison Squadron. An American pilot in the L-4 airplane. It takes off. 71st Liaison Squadron L-4 airplanes fly above cloud formation and land at an airstrip near Ledo. Wounded men are transferred from the airplanes to ambulances and taken to hospital. The airpanes take off.
U.S. air raid on Burma during World War II. Guided flying bombs are fired against the Japanese targets in Burma. U.S. aircraft in flight. Bombs are dropped on the target. The target area explode.
The Chindits, a Long Range Penetration Group of British and Indian soldiers, return to India from their ill fated mission cross the jungles of Assam and Burma during World War 2. A Chindit soldier pets a dog. Chindit soldiers take baths in small metal tubs. Mythical chinthe statues in Burma. Orde Wingate, British brigadier and leader of the Chindit units, speaks with military officials. Chindit column crosses a jungle. Chindit soldiers on boats on the Chindwin River the largest tributary of the Irrawaddy river. Chindit soldiers pushes small boat. One of the Chindit soldiers appears to be naked, and thus might be Wingate himself, given the Wingate was known to even greet visitors to his tent while naked. Chindit soldiers carry supplies in the jungle
Rangoon, Burma, under Japanese occupation during World War 2. Japanese propaganda film states, in Japanese, that Volunteer Corps is building a 'New 'Burma,' and that Volunteer corps training illustrates how people can enjoy and manage their freedom from the British. Burmese gather at open market in front of a hotel in Rangoon. Words "On Look Hotel" appear along with Japanese lettering on the hotel front. Several Japanese soldiers mingle amongst the crowd at an open market. All manner of foods and goods being sold. Women display fabrics. Crowd gathered in grandstand of stadium to watch Volunteer Corps training and parade. Shwedagon Paya (Pagoda), Buddhist temple seen in background. Japanese officer stands on steps and salutes as Volunteer Corps pass in review. Their most notable weapon is a machine gun mounted in a wagon.
The Chindits or the Indian 3rd Infantry Division of the British Indian Army in Burma in World War 2. The troops with a pack train consisting of mules enter into a Burma village. They load and fire mortars and machine guns. A Chindit looks through a pair of binoculars. Firing in the village toward Japanese held Mogaung. Chinese troops move to join the Chindits. The soldiers and the pack train move forward. The Chinese troops in a reunion with the Chindits exchange hats and greet. A plane strafes Japanese positions. Smoke due to explosions. Machine guns are fired. Japanese forces abandon Mogaung and Chindit and Chinese soldiers move in to the destroyed area. Dead enemy Japanese soldiers amid the ruins. Three Chindits posing near a Burmese Pagoda, honoring the mythical creatures that are their namesake guarding a Pagoda.
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