A military film report on the advance of members of U.S. Army 5307th Composite Unit nicknamed Merrill's Marauders towards Myitkyina, Burma for its capture during World War II. Merrill's Marauders on the top of a hill overlooking Myitkyina. Glider reinforcement operations show U.S. Army Air Force airplanes towing gliders over Myitkyina. Gliders and transport airplanes being attacked during landings. Allied troops and Merrill's Marauders advance and fire guns toward Japanese troops. Soldiers fire machine guns. Fighter airplanes in flight overhead. Artillery is fired.
A military film report on the capture of Myitkyina airfield in Myitkyina, Burma by U.S. Army 5307th Composite Unit nicknamed Merrill's Marauders during World War II. A trooper sets up a sign which reads 'Los Angeles City Limits'. U.S. Army Air Force airplanes taxi and land on a muddy airstrip. U.S. Army General Joseph Stilwell deplanes and congratulates Commander of 5307th Composite Unit General Frank Merrill. A letter on a bulletin board thanking U.S. OSS (Officer of Strategic Services) Detachment 101 for providing services during the capture of Myitkyina airfield.
U.S. soldiers talk with French partisans in Saint-Tropez, France during World War II. The leader of the FFI (French Forces of the Interior) M. Marc Rainaut and Mme. Nicole Celebonovitch, a member of the FFI converse with U.S. Pvt (Private) Winifred D. Eason (Atlanta, Georgia) of the 509th Parachute Battalion, whose life was saved by the partisans.
A U.S. battalion operates a direction and height finder in Dobodura, New Guinea during World War II. U.S. soldiers of Battalion D, 208th CA (Coastal Artillery) AA (Antiaircraft) operate a direction and height finder in a sandbagged emplacement.
Commander of U.S. forces in the Southeast Asian Theater General Joseph Stilwell confers with Commander of 38th Division of Chinese Army Lieutenant General L.J. Sun at front lines in Burma during World War II. Chinese troops walk along a jungle road. Joseph Stilwell talks to Lieutenant General L.J. Sun at front lines. Chinese guards stand around them. Stretcher bearers carry wounded along a jungle trail.
Commander of U.S. forces in the Southeast Asian Theater General Joseph Stilwell confers with Commander of 38th Division of Chinese Army Lieutenant General L.J. Sun at front lines in Burma during World War II. General Stilwell and Lieutenant L.J. Sun go through maps in a jungle at the front lines. General Stilwell looks at stretcher bearers carrying a wounded man.
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