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The U.S. officers being greeted by and meeting other officials in China.
U.S. officers arrive in China. Commandant of the U.S. forces in China General Albert Wedemeyer makes an inspection tour of the American installations in China. He comes out of an aircraft. Other officials greet him. U.S. Ambassador to China Patrick Jay Hurley arrives and meets Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill meets local leaders in Athens, Greece.
General Hata inspects Japanese troops in Central China (WW2)
A plane takes off from Nanjing, China. Commander-in-chief General Shunroku Hata talks to a military officer in flight to Central China. General Hata and other Imperial Japanese Army officers in Central China. General Hata and other officers inspect Central China Expeditionary Army in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (World War II).
The agricultural reforms and people's communes under Mao Zedong's 'Great Leap Forward' plan in China.
Agricultural conditions in the People’s Republic of China under the Communist regime of Mao Zedong photographed by an Indian delegation visiting the country. Mao Zedong implements the economic and social plan titled 'Great Leap Forward' with Soviet help in 1958. The agricultural aspects of the plan (during which the great famine in China took place). The Chinese countryside. Farmers use tractors, machines, and other equipment for farming. Farmers plow fields, thresh crop and make haystacks using pitchforks. Men and women dig farmland. Millions of Chinese peasant people are organized to work the land, clear land, build dams and dig canals. Peasants working in Communist government-organized People's Communes for farming. Farmers work, cultivate and harvest crops using human labor to make up for lack of machinery. Chinese peasants seen farming barren land also affected by floods and locust. People engaged in construction work. People's Republic of China Chairman Mao Zedong visits the communes. The commune system is abandoned in 1961 in favor of collective agriculture. Small units of 20 farm families cultivate land as directed by local farmers. Farmers cultivate land, harvest crops. Men and women pick cotton. Young Chinese boys and girls attend university in China. Young boys on bicycles. University students in a classroom. The university campus. Children on the playground in a school. They perform the 'Turnip Dance' on stage as other children and teachers watch.
Brigadier General Chennault and Colonel Scott with Flying Tigers and their P-40 aircraft in China
Brigadier General Chennault of 23rd Pursuit Group U.S. Army Air Force, and Colonel Scott standing in front of a map of China. A picture of Chiang Kai Shek. Colonel Scott talking to Flying Tigers personnel and Chinese hosts. P-40 aircraft with shark teeth paintings seen in background. Colonel Scott is welcomed by Captain Wong of China Air force. Pilot R.T. Smith in cockpit of P-40 warplane. The plane has many Japanese kill flags painted on side. P-40s of Flying Tigers lined up. Aerial views of P-40 aircraft in flight. Pilots wearing new flying uniform but with special sign on back 'Free China' written on them. General Chennault inside aircraft as he begins command with his new role under the USAAF leading the China Air Task Force (later the 14th Air Force).
United States Army Air Force planes strafe Japanese ships at a sea in China.
Allied attack Japanese positions in China. An animated map of China shows transportation of oil and other supplies in the region towards south of China. A fleet of ships towards the China Sea. United States Army Air Force planes in flight as they strafe Japanese ships. Explosions occur at sea. Water gushes high up in the air. The ships are strafed. (World War II period).
Chinese people celebrate the news of successful testing of first thermonuclear bomb by China.
Events related to China's First Thermonuclear Test. Chinese people celebrate upon the news of the successful nuclear weapon test by China. View of the headlines in several major newspapers in China regarding China's first successful thermonuclear test. Chinese people play drums, sing, dance and celebrate on streets. Picture of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung in the parades. English translation overlays Chinese narrator.