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China builds Burma Road to carry war materiel and supplies and creates flood of Yellow River to thwart Westward expansion of Japanese occupied territory
Japanese officials meeting in strategy session. Japanese infantry on mission to cut Chinese supply lines during 2nd Sino-Japanese war. Black smoke rises as they move along a river bank. Chinese prisoner-workers are forced to rebuild railroads destroyed by the Chinese people during their great Westward trek. Japanese soldier closely guards workers. A Japanese army armored train underway on the rebuilt railroad, as Japanese soldiers cheer. Animated map shows China's supply lines by sea, to Tsingtao, Hangchow, and Amoy, cut off by Japanese naval blockade. Japanese Navy launch with officers and crew moving near commercial ships as they take over Chinese river ports. War materiel and other supplies destined for China, including trucks, sit idle, unable to be transported to their destinations. Large oil tanks and drums of gasoline are shown, as well as gun barrels and a flightline filled with parked Curtiss P-36 Hawk aircraft. The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Asakaze (DD-3) and another, next to it, in a Chinese river port. A Japanese freighter with anchored weighed, secured by long lines to a wharf. Small boats flying Japanese Naval ensigns are next to it. View of map showing china, Burma, Indo-China, and Chungking, with Japanese blockading fleet stationed in the South China Sea. It traces path of narrow gauge rail line from Indo-china to Kumming,China, where it connected to an overland road to Chungking. Next it traced the old Camel Caravan route, across China, from Russia. Narrator notes these were to small to be useful and too close to Japanese-occupied territory. Next, the map traces a railroad that from the port of Rangoon to Lashio, Burma. It is separated from the road to Chungking, by mountains and gorges. Views of the actual mountainous terrain. Animal pack trains moving through the area. Construction engineers in a large drafting room designing a road to transit the area. View of modern road-building caterpillar tractor equipment of the type needed to accomplish this. View of Chinese laborers using manpower instead. They push large rollers and employ pickaxes and other hand-held tools to carve away and dig road beds. Masses of Chinese laborers at work, carving a road along the edge of a mountain. Two-men teams using manual tampers to pound down the roadbed. Children are employed along with adults. A woman with a baby on her back, pounding large rocks into gravel, surrounded by other children doing the same. View from above of the "Burma Road," the product of their labors, winding its way through the mountains and gorges. Many scenes of trucks moving along portions of the Burma Road. P-40 airplanes flying past white cumulus clouds, overhead. Animated map shows continued expansion of Japanese occupied areas to encompass two thirds of the rail lines in China with goal of controlling the remainder, starting at Chengchow, in Summer, 1938. View of Chengchow region, on banks of the Yellow River. Map illustrates flow pattern of the Yellow River. View from past of the Yellow River's Spring floods toward the Sea, with Chinese people throwing rocks onto dikes that keep the river flowing in a more Northerly direction than its former course. Illustration shows how with Japanese encrouching on Chengchow, the Chinese decided to destroy those dikes and allow the river to flood over its former more Southerly course. Japanese soldiers being inundated by the flooding river. Japanese infantry and tanks regrouping on their occupied side of the new (old) path of the Yellow River. Local Chinese residents of Chengchow, wade with belongings as they leave their flooded homes.
A United States Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber aircraft takes off from an airfield in China.
A United States Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress bomber aircraft takes off from China during World War II. The B-29 Superfortress aircraft taxis and takes off from a runway. The aircraft in flight over mountains. Engineers of the Chinese Army construct landing strips.
Chinese children seated in a classroom and Chinese Armed Force troops practice drills in China.
Benefits to China due to Japanese occupation during World War II. Buildings in a city. Chinese children seated in a classroom. A man teaches them. A close of two children listening. A man reads from a book. The children seated in the classroom listen to him. The children walk out of a building in a formation and march on a street. They practice drills holding swords. Chinese Armed Force troops march on the street and practice drills. Soldiers hold shovels and practice. Soldiers near artillery practice firing.
Chinese men make different parts of an engine in a factory in China.
Chinese men at work in a factory in China. Trains on tracks. A factory in the background. Men at work on a train engine. They weld parts of an engine. A Chinese worker welding a part. Men at work on different machines in the factory. A worker tests parts with a tester. A worker molds an engine part and hits it with a hammer. The body of the engine.
Japanese troops fire artillery, advance in prone position and capture parts of China.
Japanese win battles in China during World War II. Japanese troops carrying guns and other necessary equipment move on a mountain. Soldiers stand around an artillery and fire. Smoke rises on the mountain due to the firing. The troops move up. They fire guns in prone positions. The troops in camouflaged uniforms fire. A building in the foreground. The troops cross a bridge. A close up of a Japanese soldier in grasses. The soldiers fire guns and advance. The troops in prone position on a railway track. Smokes rises due to explosions and troops move up.
Chinese troops fight the Japanese in China during World War II.
Activities of Chinese troops in China during World War II. Chinese combat troops march on a street. An officer watches through binoculars. Soldiers work with picks and shovels while constructing a road. A man places dynamite in a hole. He turns a detonator. An explosion on the road. Chinese soldiers advance. They fire rifles and Bren guns. A Chinese woman nurses and bandages the hand of a casualty on a litter. Chinese soldiers fire rifles at the Japanese from a trench.
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