Map of China shows Beijing (Peiping), Nanjing (Nanking), Shanghai and Guangzhou (Canton). Top shot shows busy port area of The Bund. Sign reads "The Bund." View from balcony of a high building looking out over the streets, buildings, and Huangpu River of the Bund area. Sign Nanking Road. Sign Sassoon House (20 East Nanjing Road, Shanghai, China) and Cathay Hotel. Chinese people get on bus. Double Decker bus and trams.
Map of China shows Beijing (Peiping), Hankow / Hankou (now part of present-day Wuhan), Nanjing (Nanking), Shanghai and Guangzhou (Canton). The city of Hankow on the Yangtze River. Junks on river. Naval boat. Transport - Air lines and land routes inside China. Map. Pilot on small sea plane. Aerials of rural area. Railway steam train running. Shadow of people on roof of train as it passes through countryside.
United States Army Air Force operations against the Japanese in China in 1944. United States Army Air Force 1st American volunteer Group pilots look at a map. A pilot in a cockpit with a sign on the plane as it reads 'Pilot R.T. Smith' Soldiers are briefed and a man puts an insignia on the collar of a soldier. An animated map shows the transportation of supplies across the Himalayas to China. Chinese troops. Planes in flight. Aircraft take off and fly in formation. American Fighters in flight. Japanese plane burns and descends. Another plane explodes in mid air and falls. Men look at wreckage of crashed aircraft. Allied Officers confer. Animation shows location of Chinese towns. U.S. Army Air Force aircraft take off for attacking the Japanese positions. (World War II period).
The Republic of China hosts a National athletics meet in Nanking, China. Chinese flag hoisted at the games. Men participate in various ancient games at the meet, like archery. Men kick a small shuttlecock with their feet without letting it fall on the ground. Grandstands are filled with men, women and children.
U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace visits China during World War II. Generalissimo of the Nationalistic Government of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek in Chungking (Chongqing) to greet the U.S. Vice President. An aircraft lands and Henry Wallace disembarks from it. He is greeted by dignitaries. At a Red Cross Service Men's Club, he is greeted by Red Cross workers. Wallace shakes hands with U.S. soldiers and plays volleyball with them. He visits an orphanage with Madame Chiang (Soong Mei-ling) and other dignitaries. The girls at the orphanage. At Chiang Kai-shek's summer residence, a reception is given in Vice President's honor.
Industries in Shanghai, China. Chinese people in a demonstration room at American Engineering Corporation. A man demonstrates a Frigidaire refrigerator to a Chinese woman. A Chinese girl at a Philco radio. A man gives a paper to the girl to sign. ' Frigidaire' written in the background. Exterior of the building. Sign ' American Engineering Co. of China' on the building.