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10th Air Force B-25H flies over grounded C-46 aircraft that is repaired and takes off in Burma during World War II

A U.S. B-25H of the 1st Air Commando Group, 10th Air Force, in Burma-India theater, during World War 2. It taxis and takes off. Separate view of pilot Robert R. Martin in cockpit of aircraft with name "Old Flaherty" under the canopy and insignia of the 10th Air Jungle Rescue Detachment. View of Curtiss C-46A-40-U Commando aircraft parked in rough field. B-25 flies low over the field, buzzing it several times. Indigenous people on the ground pull prop through and the C-46 starts engines, taxis, and takes off. It makes a low pass over the field as those on ground wave.

Location: Burma
Date: 1944, June 20
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052233
Earth moving equipment including cranes, steam rollers, tractors, steam shovels and bulldozers in the Pacific Theater (WW2)

Earth moving equipment in the Pacific Theater (World War II). Earth moving equipment at a construction site. A sign reads : 'Sidewalk Superintendents Club'. Cranes, steam rollers, tractors, steam shovels at work. A jungle road and a bridge. Soldiers fire artillery, bomb target areas and battleships attack. Display of man power, fire power, air power and sea power during the war. Engineers lay a steel mesh. An aircraft lands on an airstrip as a bulldozer clears the airstrip. In China, Chinese people work manually. In India, elephants carry wooden logs and load them into a truck. In North Africa, camels carry load. In America, machines are used. A bulldozer levels land.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058072
Chinese engineers construct the Stilwell road and build bridge in Burma.

The Ledo-Burma road shown on animated map of China and India. The Ledo Road or Stilwell road (named after General Joseph Stilwell) under construction. Chinese man takes picture. Workers fall trees. Crane uproots tree and clears the area of debris. Rocks blasted and bridge built. Chinese engineers work inside a large pipe.

Location: Burma
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043289
A C-87 aircraft carrying supplies flies from Jorhat airfield over the Naga hills to Kunming in China.

A United States aircraft in flight over the Himalayas in Jorhat, India. An animated map shows places like Calcutta and Burma. Supplies are loaded onto a United States Army Air Force ( USAAF ) C-87 airplane. The aircraft in flight over the Naga Hills. Aerial views of the terrain between Jorhat and Kunming. A Chinese farmland in view. The supplies are unloaded at an airfield in Kunming, China. They are transferred to a truck parked nearby. A USAAF C-46 parked on the airfield. Drums of aviation gasoline are unloaded. The C-46 takes off.

Location: Kunming China
Date: 1944, March 21
Duration: 6 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061656
Japanese soldiers advance with tanks and ammunition towards Mandalay in Burma (WW2)

Activities of Japanese soldiers in Southeast Asia during World War II. A relief map of India, China and Indochina shows the locations of Rangoon and Mandalay in Burma (Myanmar). Japanese soldiers march along a dirt road. Trucks parked along the side of a road. Japanese troops march. Burmese civilians standing on the side of a road wave flags. A Burmese civilian fill vessels with water for Japanese horses to drink. Burmese man give Japanese soldiers water to drink. The troops march in the background. Two Japanese soldiers drink water from canteens. Japanese soldiers and U.S. prisoners of war seated on the ground. A Japanese officer points to a piece of paper and discusses. The soldiers marching on a street move past a sign which reads: 'Mandalay 82 Mi-Rangoon 348 Mi'. A Japanese soldier pushes a dump truck up a steep grade on a road. Japanese officers and a car in the background. A photographer and a medium tank in the background. A Japanese soldier drives steel wedges into the ground behind a piece of field artillery. The Japanese fire the field artillery. A column of smoke rises. Japanese tanks drive down a dirt road. The field artillery being pulled by Japanese soldiers. The soldiers march carrying Japanese flags. Demolished buildings in the foreground. Freight cars on a siding, bomb crates near railroad tracks. Japanese medium tanks advance over the railroad tracks.

Location: Mandalay Southeast Asia
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: French
Clip: 65675062214
Lt. Gen. Joe Stillwell lands at SEAC airfield in Ceylon, where he meets BG Frank Merrill, during World War II

A U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft approaches a South East Asia Command airfield in Ceylon, in World War 2. As it taxis in after landing, the words: "Uncle Joe's Chariot" can be seen painted below the cockpit window, along with the China-Burma-India Command Insignia. U.S. Army Lieutenant General Joseph Warren Stilwell, AKA Joe (Vinegar) Stilwell, steps from the airplane's rear door carrying a campaign hat in his left hand. He shakes hands with Brigadier General Frank Dow Merrill (of Merrill's Marauders) and other officers. Stilwell (now wearing his campaign hat) converses with Merrill. Together, they walk toward a waiting staff car.

Location: Ceylon
Date: 1944, July 31
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057875
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