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Colonel Seagrave's medical unit gives treatment to wounded soldiers in Northern Burma.
Activities of Colonel Seagrave's medical unit in Northern Burma. Animated map shows Northern Burma. Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave, The Burma Surgeon performs an outdoor operation. Wounded soldiers and casualties are moved out by Burmese nurses for treatment. Doctors operate on injured people. Chinese medical personnel take training at American center for Chinese Army in India and they operate. (World War II period).
Allied troops advance and construct an air base in Burma during World War II.
Allied campaign in Burma during World War II. In Burma past events show late British Army Major General Wingate with British Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten and Colonel Filip Corkan as British troops depart for action. Aircraft in flight as paratroopers drop in the jungles of Burma. Allied troops advance into muddy combat area. Allied tanks and infantry advance into dense jungles. Wounded Japanese soldiers being provided medical aid. Natives gathered in an area. A Buddhist shrine. U.S. Army General Joseph Stilwell smokes a cigarette. Artillery being fired. An Allied tank gets damaged due to a Japanese land mine. Machine guns being fired by the Allied soldiers. An air base being constructed. General Stilwell cuts a cake to celebrate his 61st birthday.
Royal Air Force bombers drop bombs over target areas in Burma during World War II.
The Royal Air Force bombs Burma during World War II. British airmen on an airfield in Burma. Bombs brought in on a bomb cart. An airman rolling a bomb to the underside of an aircraft to fix it onto the bomb rack. A few airmen fixing the bomb onto the bomb rack on the underside of the wing. A man in front of one of the wings of the aircraft and the pilot standing in the cockpit with the hatch open. The bomber aircraft taxis on the airfield and takes off. The aircraft in flight over the clouds. The pilot in the cockpit. Aerial views of the target areas in Burma. Bombs being dropped on the target areas. Explosions occur and smoke rises from the explosions.
U.S. Army 5307th Composite Unit and native rangers advance towards Myitkyina, Burma during World War II.
A military film report on the advance of Merrill's Marauders (officially named 5307th Composite Unit) towards Myitkyina, Burma and recruitment and training of natives during World War II. Members of Detachment 101 of the Office of Strategic Services aboard a U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain airplane in flight over Burma. Merill's Marauders and native rangers in Burma. Animated map highlights advance towards Japanese-held town of Myitkyina.
Captain James Green being airlifted from his crash site by a Sikorsky YR-4 helicopter in Shingbwiyang, Burma during World War 2
Men carry injured U.S. Army Air Force Jungle Rescue Pilot Captain James Green from hospital tent to completed MEDEVAC landing zone in Shingbwiyang, Burma during World War II. Green had been injured in a crash of his helicopter. Dr. Underwood talks on hand radio as men sight an incoming Sikorsky YR-4 helicopter. Engineer sets off smoke flare. Helicopter lands and men hold it. Men carry Captain Green on litter to the helicopter and he shakes hands with Pilot Lieutenant Raymond Murdock. Dr. Underwood gives Green an injection in his arm. Men put Captain Green in the helicopter and it takes off. Men cheer and shake hands with Dr. Underwood. This is an early example of one of the first helicopter MEDEVAC (Medical Evacuation) flights in a combat zone. Prior to this MEDEVAC flight, this particular helicopter, a Sikorsky YR-4, had been dismantled at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio on January 17, 1945, loaded on a C-54 transport, and flown to the North Burma theater of operations. It was reassembled and flown by Capt. Frank Peterson, USAAF, on January 26, 1945 to evacuate wounded weather observer Private Howard Ross from a 4,700 foot mountain ridge in the Naga hills of Burma.
7th Bomber Group (H) Squadron and 4934 Bombardment Squadron of U.S. Army Air Force over Moulmein in Burma, WWII
U.S. Army Air Force attack enemy positions of Burma in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. The 7th Bomber Group (H) Squadron and the 4934 Bombardment Squadron of the U.S. Army Air Force during a mission on railroad bridges in Moulmein in Burma. Smoke rising from bombed places in farms and railroads.
