Curtiss P-40 airplane of the "Flying Tigers" with tiger teeth painted on its nose, early in World War 2. American volunteer airmen of the squadron loading belt of 50 caliber ammunition into the plane. A red warning flag raised above the plane as guns are tested on the ground. Flying Tigers pilots in their operations office. Closeup of American General Claire Chennault,adviser to the Chinese Air Force and Commander of the Flying Tigers. Pilots scramble to their aircraft and take off to engage Japanese planes. Eight P-40s flying overhead in a V formation. Aerial view of Flying Tiger P-40s in flight. Closeup view of Japanese Tachikawa Ki-36/55 airplane, in flight, with canopy open showing pilot in front cockpit and second crew member in rear cockpit. (Wheel pants are not installed on this aircraft, indicating it is a Ki 55 version.) View of a P-40 diving. General Chennault conversing with a Chinese officer. A group of pilots in flight suits and helmets walking away from the flight line after a mission.
Chinese emigrate to the West as they flee the invading Japanese. Chinese military officers and officials in a meeting. They develop strategies to fight the Japanese invasion. Maps and charts on the table. They confer on territory yield, military strategy and industrial power for production of rifles and guns. An officer talks as he points to a wall map. They decide to move West into the mountains. Chinese men blow up roads, scorch fields, and blow up factories before proceeding westward. Factories in flames. People begin to move towards the West. Men, women and children walk, ride in hand rickshaws. They cross bridges and cities in the process of mass migration. People carry their belongings and machinery. Libraries, schools and houses are dismantled and carted away. Machinery moved in trucks and carts. People wait for a train near a railroad. They board a train bound westward. men dismantle railway tracks to leave no route for the enemy. People seated on railway carriages. Overcrowded boats and barges in a river. Elderly people and children in the boats. People cross a river running through a mountain gorge. People walk on the banks and pull load and boats with ropes. People climb hills and move further into the mountains. (World War II period).
Nationalist Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) troops attacking Japanese-held Teng-Chung (also Tengchong or Tengchung), a city in Yunnan province, on the Burmese border, during World War II. A Chinese Captain, watches through binoculars, as his infantry leave trenches and advance toward a hilltop fortification. Shells burst near the summit and around the advancing troops, who carry poles and ladders. Upon reaching the outer walls they use the ladders to scale them and enter the fortification. Later, KMT soldiers are seen sheltering against buildings as the town is struck by Japanese shellfire. They run forward. A KMT soldier employs a flame thrower. They run past barricades and burning vehicles, toward a damaged building. Two riflemen take up prone positions, as the soldier with the flame thrower passes in front of them. The infantrymen crawl forward cautiously.
General Kai-Shek and Madame Kai-Shek arrive in a car. Colonel Bennett, Colonel Branch and Colonel Tex Hill receives the guests and greet them. General Kai-Shek talks to Chinese officers. They all move past the saluting Chinese airmen. Fighter planes in background. Madame Kai-Shek talks to Colonel Branch. General Kai-Shek walks through under the planes to inspect the bombers. General Kai-Shek and Madame Kai-Shek get back in the car. General Kai-Shek and Madame Kai-Shek inspect the maps on a table in the Wing's intelligence room. General Kai-Shek and Madame Kai-Shek view a chart as a soldier points to it on a wall. A man arrives in the room and shakes hands with the General. They all move. Chinese airmen salute as they pass by.
Animated map shows Japanese counterattack from Changsha and Canton (Guangzhou) against American forces moving towards Fuchow (Fuzhou). View of a deserted airfield near Kweilin (Guilin) where Japanese ousted Americans. Artillery shells. Transporter train passes away. (World War II period).
Views of a U.S. Army Air Force C-87 aircraft burning due to short circuit in electrical system. Smoke clouds rising from the aircraft as fire breaks out from the front part of the aircraft. Damaged aircraft lying on the airfield consumed with fire and smoke. (World War II period).