A film titled 'Coming Kunming' based on the problem of getting supplies to China and the activities of U.S. Troop Carrier Command during World War II. Japanese troops march into a Chinese town during Sino-Japanese war. They advance during an invasion. A map highlights the Burma Road linking Burma with China and Kunming, Yunnan and Lashio as its terminals. A Chinese woman works on the road. Trucks move along the road. The Ledo Road as an alternative to the Burma Road which had been cut by the Japanese Army. U.S. Army Air Force B-24 Liberator bombers in flight over the Himalayan Mountains. Inadequate dock facilities in Calcutta, India. A map details transportation problem. Native labor is used for the construction of a U.S. air base in India. Building of rail road lines. Chinese laborers work in China. Cargo ships underway at sea.
Premier of China Chiang-Kai-Shek in China during World War II. Premier of China Chiang-Kai-Shek poses with his wife Soong May-ling for a photograph.
Japanese propaganda film: "The Battle to 'Mop Up' China." During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese troops in boats move up the Pearl River near Canton (Guangzhou) in Guangdong Province, China. They fire a gun from the boat. They disembark and make their way inland on muddy terrain. They wade through rice paddies, and fire machine guns and mortars. Victorious Japanese troops with captured Chinese prisoners pose for picture.
Supply convoy reaches Quemoy in China despite the communist Chinese blockade, during Cold War. Ships carry the supplies at sea. Men on landing craft at the sea. Men on deck. President Chiang Kai Shek arrives at a press conference in Formosa. He opposes reduction of garrisons on the off-shore islands. Mainland China rebuffs United States peace bids with an enormous Chinese propaganda demonstration in Peiping (Beijing) on the grounds of the old Imperial Palace. Communist Chinese demonstrate with boards, placards and flags in hand. A huge crowd gathers at the palace grounds and decries what it calls American aggression in the Taiwan strait. President Zhou Enlai addresses the massive crowd.
Sun rises from the east. Cloudy skies. Chairman Mao Zedong waves at large crowd during a function in China. Chinese cheerleaders perform and march in the function. Cadets lined up at attention. Thousands of hot air balloons are released in the air. Images of programs started during China's "Great Leap Forward" program: Aerial view of step farming in fields. View of crops in a Chinese farm. Chinese harvesters work in farms. View of an industrial refinery plant. An oil rig and Chinese workers at the oil rig. View inside various factories and manufacturing centers with heavy machinery (with year 1961 inscribed on it) pressing and forming molten steel, and factory workers at work. Railroad train moves on track. Convoy of truck-trailers loaded with burlap covered Chinese military equipment moves on a twisting dirt road. Elevated view of a military camp. Footage is from in between "Great Leap Forward" and Chinese Cultural Revolution. English translation overlays Chinese narration.
United States President Richard Nixon and First Lady Mrs Patricia Nixon during their tour to People's Republic of China. President Nixon wearing an overcoat accompanied by other dignitaries visits the Great Wall of China at Badaling. First Lady Patricia Nixon, Secretary of State William Rogers, and other dignitaries during the visit, including Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien. The dignitaries walk on the Great wall. President talks to a young girl. A high peak of the Great Wall. People in the party talk to each other and look from the Great Wall.