A film shows the Burma Road near Paoshan in Yunnan, China during World War II. Chinese workers at work on the Burma Road. Katchin men and women carry logs with loads on both the ends of the logs. Katchin women pose. A supply truck moves along the Burma Road.
Activities of Japanese people in Japan. People buy newspaper at newsstand. Election campaign activities. People listen to political candidates. Japanese politicians campaigning in Tokyo. People go to polling booth and cast their votes. Woman puts ballet paper in box. People watch tabulation board for results. Man stand on ladder at the board. The National Diet Building. Emperor Hirohito on throne. Emperor Hirohito addresses the National Diet. He reads the declaration. Speakers on rostrum. The 1947 Japanese Constitution opened. Pages are turned over. Officials enter the Japanese Supreme Court. The court in session. Police instructor lectures police and they make notes. A policeman helps two civilians at a Koban or police box in Sukiyabashi in Yurakucho, Tokyo. Traffic police on crossroad controls traffic. A policeman picks up a ball on road and returns it to baseball player. Witness comes in court and bows. Japanese politicians in meeting around table.
The high frontier of X-15 in United States. Rocket powered aircraft X-15 is towed and taken out from a hangar. Various symbols on X-15. A sign reads 'North American Aviation Inc'. Models of aircraft from earliest to most recent are shown. B-29 launching Bell X-1 rocket plane on October 14, 1947. View inside cabin of B-29. Airspeed indicator in the X-1 shows Mach 1 plus. View of X-1D rocket plane landing in Mojave desert, July 24, 1951, as nose wheel collapses and the plane sends up plumes of sand as it spins around before coming to rest, facing backwards. Test pilot Jean Ziegler is seen afterwards in the cockpit, breathing a sigh of relief. Jet fighter seen exceeding mach 2 airspeed. Animation of B-52B Stratofortress launching X-15. and its landing on desert.
Sign on car reads “Nuffield Exports.” A 1947 Morris Eight Series E automobile is pushed onto a lift platform by dock workers. Car is secured and then foreman gives the signal to lift. Another car is loaded on the platform and lifted. Close up of foreman giving the lift signal. A Matador truck chassis with drivetrain dangling via crane above a ship's cargo hold area. Workers rotate truck while it is lowered.
Animated map of India and Burma shows locations Myitkyina and Bhamo during World War II. Pontoons are hauled by trailer trucks along the Burma Road. The transport hampered as semi-trailers wide to cross the roads easily. Chinese troops bring pontoons by train. Chinese troops build a bridge over the Irrawaddy River. Construction work in progress. United States troops work.
The Burma Campaign of World War II. Japanese soldiers advance down Burma roads. Soldiers carrying rifles walk past a sign post. The soldiers walk along with their horses. A large column of soldiers including soldiers on foot, on bicycles and on horses walk past trucks.