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Chungking China 1939 stock footage and images
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Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang Kai-shek dining, and Madame awards medals to the U.S. soldiers in China.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mei-ling), wife of Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing (Chungking), China. A banquet hall in Chongqing. Madame and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek dining with U.S. officers and Chinese officers. A Chinese man serves food to Chiang Kai-shek. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek eating with chop sticks. Madame eating with chopsticks. Madame Chiang awarding medals to U.S. officers and noncommissioned officers. (World War II period).
Madame Chiang Kai-shek with American Red Cross girls, boards C-54 Skymaster and leaves for Chongqing, China.
Soong Mei-ling or Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, leaves for Chongqing (Chungking), China from the United States. Madame Chiang with American Red Cross girls. She walks and speaks to the girls. Madame Chiang and the girls standing at the shore of a beach. Soong Mei-ling meets the U.S. officers and Generals. She is escorted by a Chinese official. Soong Mei-ling enters a car. She gets out of the car and climbs up a ladder. Soong Mei-ling boards C-54 Skymaster. The C-54 takes off for Chongqing. The aircraft in flight. A pilot and crew at controls. A crew member plotting a graph. The pilot at the controls talks. The crew members and the pilot talking.
Chiang Kai-shek of China receives highest U.S. Foreign award during World War II
General Joseph Warren Stilwell presents the Legion of Merit to Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing (Chungking), China during World War II. Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mei-ling) is also present. Madame Chiang talks to news correspondents.
Members of the Cease Fire delegation descend from an airplane in Peiping, China.
Members of the Cease Fire delegation arrive in Beijing (also known as Peking or Peiping), China. They seek to negotiate a peace between the Chinese Nationalist government led by Chiang Kai-shek and Communist insurgents led by Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung). Delegates descending from an airplane include Walter C. Robertson (in charge of Chungking affairs for the US), General Ye Jianying (Yeh Chien-Ying) of the Chinese Communist Army, and General Cheng Kai-Ming of the Nationalist Forces. Delegates pose for a photograph.
Scenes from World War 1, and world events in the period between World War I and World War II.
Rail guns firing in World War 1. U.S. troops charging out of trenches. Allied gunners firing "French 75s" Allied twin-tailed biplane bombers. French Renault F17 tanks. Crowds in cities celebrate Armistice Day and end of World War I. Treaty of Versailles. Destruction of warships. Scenes of Paris. A pagoda in Japan. Temples in Siam, China, and Manchuria. Two Kayan women in Myanmar or Thailand perform a dance. Both Kayan women wear long brass coil neck rings. In the U.S., a boy hits a baseball and runs toward first base. Scenes of Japan invading Manchuria. Newspaper with headline: Henry Stimson denouncing Japan. U.S. Army troops dispel World War I veteran bonus marchers. Men lined up in bread line for unemployed during Great Depression. Brief shot of Gangsters in gun battle in an American city. Scenes of dust bowl in American with farmers and families heading West in caravans. Family standing by tent. Torchlight parade in Germany. Adolf Hitler standing with German President Hindenburg circa 1933. Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Victor Lutze, at 1934 Nazi Rally in Nuremberg. Italian Caproni bombers over Ethiopia. Ethiopian tribesmen and Haile Selassie. U.S.Neutrality Act. American youths with a 1930 Ford coupe. Scenes from Civil war in Spain. Spanish Rebel forces in ground combat with Nationalist forces. German and Italian aircraft participate in bombing Spanish Nationalist targets in Spanish Civil War. Spanish civilians flee bombing, tend to wounded and dead victims following bombings. Italian Savoia-Marchetti S.M.79 Sparviero bombers. Crowds running for shelter. Women and children victims of bombing, some crying and in shock. Spanish General Francisco Franco arrives by train in southern France to meet with Hitler. View of Gallup Poll forms, and findings, with Americans against entering European war and preferring neutrality. Japanese planes and warships attack China. Naval Chinese civilians run for cover; bodies of Chinese in trucks. Japanese freighters, Buenos Aires and Tatsuno Maru, in U.S. ports being loaded with scrap iron and metals. Hitler, Goering and other officers in 1938. Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier, Benito Mussolini, Count Ciano sign Munich Agreement. Hitler riding standing up in an open car during a rally in Germany. Elevated view of Los Angeles, then view of traffic on streets of Los Angeles California and newspapers being sold to pedestrians. View of faces of American citizens in a movie theater watching Confessions of a Nazi Spy. German-American Bund activities including outdoor rallies in the U.S. (Camp Siegfried in Yaphank, Long Island, New York, in 1937), and an indoor rally in New York City at Madison Square Garden in 1939. Emperor Hirohito reviewing World War 2 troops of Japan. Japanese steel production and arms production in Japanese factories. The Hokoku Maru Japanese ship being launched with fanfare from Tama Shipyards on July 5, 1939. Meeting of United States Military Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives in late 1939 to consider national defense matters. In meeting of Naval Affairs Committee, representative asks for increase of 25 percent in authorized naval tonnage.
Malaria control in Mengshih, China near the Burma Road during World War II.
Activities in Mengshih, China near the Burma Road during World War II. Animated map shows the Burma Road and highlights Mengshih, Paoshan and the Huitang Bridge. Chinese men work for malaria control in Mengshih. The head of Anti-Malaria Institute of the Chinese Government Dr. Y.C. Yao looks through a microscope in his office. A sign reads 'Malaria Laboratory Rockefeller Foundation Chefang, Yunnan, China' at laboratory facility founded by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1939 with efforts from U.S. Secretary Henry Morgenthau. A Chinese doctor examines and treats a Chinese boy affected with malaria. Blood samples of children are taken from earlobe and put on slides, and then examined under a microscope in the laboratory. Chinese boys (the "health boys") fill pesticide spray cans and then spray pesticides in a narrow stream. Another worker spreads pesticide in powder form to control mosquitoes. A Chinese official instructs the boys working for malaria control. Chinese men inspect the area near bushes and inspect ladles filled with water samples. Chinese official Mr. Chen meets Mrs. Sweet, the wife of a Rockefeller Institute physician.
