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Burmese students learn mortar firing techniques from U.S. and Burmese instructors in Burma during World War II.

U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officers train Burmese recruits in Burma during World War II. Burmese students learn mortar firing techniques. The students set up a practice target in a field. They line up. U.S. and Burmese instructors train and supervise the training. They take measurements and plant the assembled bipod at various spots. The students watch and learn as the instructors demonstrate mortar firing. An American instructor load shells, fire the mortar, and takes the post-fire position. Students look through the sight unit, take aim, load shells and fire mortars. One student looks through binoculars. Explosions in the field. The students learn to disassemble the mortar. They pack up the parts and move across the field. The students take down the practice target and wind up.

Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021897
Medics carry a wounded soldier on a stretcher in Burma.

Medics carry a wounded soldier on a stretcher in Burma. Shacks in the field. The wounded carried to C-47 airplane. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, July 12
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027633
Bulldozer clears path for road construction in Burma.

Bulldozer clears path for road construction in Burma.It pushes land,bushes and trees over embankment. Shows a 6x6 truck loaded with supplies stuck in a ditch.Soldiers unload the supplies from the 6x6. The bulldozer pulls the 6x6 out of the ditch.25 january 1943. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, January 25
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028820
Construction of road in Burma.

Shows construction of road in Burma.Natives cross suspended footbridge. Trucks,trailers and tractors cross a US-constructed bridge.Indian laborers load gravel on trucks from a chute. Trucks dump the gravel on the ground and laborers spread it to construct new roads.Shows laborers tossing gravel from a river bed into truck. A jeep speeds along by a newly constructed road. Truck passes by a sign on the road saying 'To Tokyo'.25 january 1943.

Date: 1943, January 25
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028821
Views of temples in Rangoon, Burma

The Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon, Burma (present day Yangon, Myanmar). A person walks past temple, carrying large bouquet of what appears to be flower-like objects. Two large Chinthe (stylized lion statues) standing guard by a pagoda on Mandalay Hill. A girl feeding pigeons in front of a temple. (Scaffolding seen on nearby structure.) Costumed men, on elevated outdoor stage, send decorated Chariot carrying several men, up inclined cables, toward a temple tower. They are watched by a crowd of spectators, seated on the ground. A temple in the woods. Silhouette of temple gate. A temple reflected in a lake.

Date: 1945
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031639
Indian elephants help the British engineers to haul heavy loads at the Burma Front.

Indian elephants at the Burma Front. The elephants in chains. An elephant pulls a load. British engineers stand nearby. A baby elephant near its mother. A man sits nearby. The baby and the mother elephant step into a puddle of water. An elephant pushes a log of wood on a cart.

Date: 1944
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033570