A film based on supplying observation posts of the Allies in jungles of Assam-Burma frontier during World War II. U.S. soldiers on a lookout post in trees. U.S. troops wait for the supplies to be dropped by a U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain airplane. Native people look through binoculars. Signal crew lays a strip of white cloth. A man gives smoke signals. The C-47 lowers the altitude and drops parachute supplies. The airplane circles the area and more containers are released. Crates are gathered by men and supplies are taken to camps. The C-47 repeats the same procedure at the second and the third camp site.
Allied planes fly over Burmese jungles and maintain the supply lines for their forces fighting in the China Burma India Theater during World War II. A British plane flies over jungles in Burma and lands in a lake. Natives on a raft load supplies in the plane from the raft. Another raft arrives with injured soldiers fighting on Burmese front. The injured taken for cure in the plane.
Ledo Road in Burma is viewed by U.S. Army Generals during World War II. U.S. Army engineer Colonel Lewis A. Pick and Commanding General Services of Supply U.S. China-Burma-India Theater of Operations William Edward Raab Covell arrive in an army transport plane. They are greeted by U.S. Army engineer Colonel Joseph Green and Lieutenant Colonel Harold A Whittier. Generals in jeep being driven on Ledo Road. Generals view Ledo Road.
Arrivals of U.S. Army officials at Myitkyina Airfield, Burma during World War II. C-47s taxi on Myitkyina Airfield. U.S. Army engineer Colonel Lewis A. Pick and Commanding General Services of Supply U.S. China-Burma-India Theater of Operations William Edward Raab Covell arrive in army transport plane. Generals are greeted by Lieutenant Colonel Hirschfield, Myitkyina Base Service of Supply CO (Commanding Officer). General Covell promotes Lieutenant Colonel Hirschfield to full Colonel.
Men carry injured U.S. Army Air Force Jungle Rescue Pilot Captain James Green from hospital tent to completed MEDEVAC landing zone in Shingbwiyang, Burma during World War II. Green had been injured in a crash of his helicopter. Dr. Underwood talks on hand radio as men sight an incoming Sikorsky YR-4 helicopter. Engineer sets off smoke flare. Helicopter lands and men hold it. Men carry Captain Green on litter to the helicopter and he shakes hands with Pilot Lieutenant Raymond Murdock. Dr. Underwood gives Green an injection in his arm. Men put Captain Green in the helicopter and it takes off. Men cheer and shake hands with Dr. Underwood. This is an early example of one of the first helicopter MEDEVAC (Medical Evacuation) flights in a combat zone. Prior to this MEDEVAC flight, this particular helicopter, a Sikorsky YR-4, had been dismantled at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio on January 17, 1945, loaded on a C-54 transport, and flown to the North Burma theater of operations. It was reassembled and flown by Capt. Frank Peterson, USAAF, on January 26, 1945 to evacuate wounded weather observer Private Howard Ross from a 4,700 foot mountain ridge in the Naga hills of Burma.
Conference of Generals at Myitkyina, Burma during the World War II. General Daniel Isom Sultan of India-Burma theater and United States Army Major General Albert Coady Wedemeyer talk to each other outside a building. Major General Frank Dow Merrill and Major General Howard C Davidson talk to each other. Generals gathers at the Army headquarters for a conference. General Sultan take snapshots with a camera. General Sultan and General Wedemeyer get into a jeep.
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