U.S. Military Mission visits Communist headquarters and meets its leaders in Yenan, Shensi province, China during World War II. Chinese soldiers read a map and plan strategies to capture a fortress under Japanese. They advance and hide in a trench. Soldiers climb hill and fire from their hideouts. Chinese soldiers reach the outpost, climb its boundary and overpower the Japanese soldiers. They rejoice after victory. Explosion and fire at the post.
U.S. Military Mission visits Communist headquarters and meets its leaders in Yenan, Shensi province, China during World War II. Chinese soldiers capture a Japanese outpost. Mules carry the weapons and equipment seized from Japanese outpost. Large number of rifles, machine guns, mortar launchers, radio stations and supplies seized during battle displayed by soldiers. Japanese prisoners captured by Chinese soldiers during the battle.
United States Military Mission visits Communist headquarters and meets its leaders in Yan'an, Shaanxi province, China during World War II. Chinese officers and General Patrick Hurley plan strategies for combat at an Allied military base. The officers talk to each other. General Hurley with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai poses for a photograph. The dignitaries board a plane. Officers of the mission receive farewell from Chinese officers while returning from mission.
United States Military Mission visits Communist headquarters and meets its leaders in in Yan'an, Shaanxi province, China during World War II. General Patrick Hurley and other U.S. Army officers of the mission at their base. General Hurley talks to Chinese Communist leader Zhou Enlai. The officers of mission pose for a group photograph. The Chinese leaders and officers bid farewell to the American officers of the mission. Officers board a plane to return. Chinese soldier march on roads and a truck pass by their side.
Nationalist Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) troops attacking Japanese-held Teng-Chung (also Tengchong or Tengchung), a city in Yunnan province, on the Burmese border, during World War II. A Chinese Captain, watches through binoculars, as his infantry leave trenches and advance toward a hilltop fortification. Shells burst near the summit and around the advancing troops, who carry poles and ladders. Upon reaching the outer walls they use the ladders to scale them and enter the fortification. Later, KMT soldiers are seen sheltering against buildings as the town is struck by Japanese shellfire. They run forward. A KMT soldier employs a flame thrower. They run past barricades and burning vehicles, toward a damaged building. Two riflemen take up prone positions, as the soldier with the flame thrower passes in front of them. The infantrymen crawl forward cautiously.
The Nationalist Chinese Salween Campaign against Japanese forces in Western Yunnan Province, during World War 2. Kuomintang (KMT) Chinese Air Force airplanes drop bombs on Japanese positions in valley near Salween River. U.S.Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft of the Air Transport Command's India-China Wing, airdrop military supplies to elements of the KMT army. U.S. military advisors (plus two pet dogs) help the Chinese to retrieve the airdropped supplies. They load mortar tubes and munitions on the shoulders of Chinese soldiers, who are also seen fastening loads on the backs of mules. The Chinese troops transport the supplies up winding mountainous paths into a destroyed town.
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