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.
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).
A promotional documentary justifying Japanese involvement in World War II. Chinese school children being taught to hate Japan.
Chinese soldiers with Indian prisoners in India Himalayan region during the Sino-India War. Chinese propaganda images in which they treat Indian prisoners well. Wounded Indian prisoners treated and fed in a chow line. Shacks on the ground. Chinese soldiers walk with guns in hands. A Chinese jeep on a path amidst mountains.
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).
Chinese troops of the 200th Div, fifth army, waiting in revetment near loading point. Troop soldiers sitting and lying on the ground. Close view of few soldiers. Troops march toward loading point. Soldiers pose holding flag. Close view of soldier with gun. A military transport aircraft C-47 can be seen in background. (World War II period).
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