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United States supply trucks move along the Burma Road in China.

A film illustrates the importance of the Burma Road in China during World War II. Animated map shows the Burma Road extending from Hsiakawan, China to the Burmese border. A truck moves along the Burma Road on the side of a mountain. A deep valley as seen from the Burma Road. U.S. supply trucks move along the road on the mountains.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060841
Activities of Chinese students in the city of Paoshan in China lying along the Burma Road.

A film shows the city of Paoshan in China which lies on the China-Burma border and near the Burma Road. Chinese students enter a building. A column of students marches. An ancient temple used as a dormitory. Chinese men read from books in a room. A temple used as a guest house.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060842
Chinese Chairman of Foreign Trade Commission K.P. Chen inspects tung oil dump in Yunnan, China (WW2)

A film shows the Burma China Road as vital link between China and Burma during World War II. Chinese Chairman of Foreign Trade Commission Kwang Pu Chen, also known as K.P. Chen, with other Chinese officials walk out of a building. The Chairman's car moves along the Burma Road. He inspects tung oil storage dump. Oil drums in the area. K.P. Chen and other Chinese officials walk over drums. Chinese workers load the oil drums on a truck. Trucks loaded with the drums leave the dump.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060846
Malaria control in Mengshih, China near the Burma Road during World War II.

Activities in Mengshih, China near the Burma Road during World War II. Animated map shows the Burma Road and highlights Mengshih, Paoshan and the Huitang Bridge. Chinese men work for malaria control in Mengshih. The head of Anti-Malaria Institute of the Chinese Government Dr. Y.C. Yao looks through a microscope in his office. A sign reads 'Malaria Laboratory Rockefeller Foundation Chefang, Yunnan, China' at laboratory facility founded by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1939 with efforts from U.S. Secretary Henry Morgenthau. A Chinese doctor examines and treats a Chinese boy affected with malaria. Blood samples of children are taken from earlobe and put on slides, and then examined under a microscope in the laboratory. Chinese boys (the "health boys") fill pesticide spray cans and then spray pesticides in a narrow stream. Another worker spreads pesticide in powder form to control mosquitoes. A Chinese official instructs the boys working for malaria control. Chinese men inspect the area near bushes and inspect ladles filled with water samples. Chinese official Mr. Chen meets Mrs. Sweet, the wife of a Rockefeller Institute physician.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060847
Japanese troops enter a Chinese city in Fujian Province of China during Second Sino-Japanese War (WW2)

Imperial Japanese Army troops invade Fujian Province, China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Japanese engineers construct a bridge across water. Tanks cross over the bridge. Japanese troops fire artillery guns on field. Japanese troops enter a Chinese city. Chinese civilians and children holding Japanese flags. Japanese troops parade along streets in the city.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675074575
Allied ships and aircraft off the coast of China during World War II.

A promotional documentary justifying Japanese involvement in World War II. Allied fleet underway off the Chinese Coast and formation of Allied aircraft over water. Battleship guns being fired. Indian troops pull the artillery gun carriages. Indian troops march along a street in China.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675074587