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Japanese troops bombard and fire on Changsha in China (WW2)
Imperial Japanese Army troops advance on Changsha, Hunan Province, China during World War II. View of boats in a lake. Japanese bombers bombard at the mountains and field in China. Explosions over the mountains. Japanese troops go with artillery to attack. The troops firing artillery. Wreckage and debris. Invading Japanese troops bombard and fire. Battles ensue and Japanese win. Exterior of a building. Japanese troops on horses.
Construction and completion of the Ledo Road from India to China during World War II
Film opens showing road sign reading: "LEDO Mile 00.00." Scene shifts to rail lines at terminus of the Assam-Bengal railroad in the Indian Province of Assam. Surveyors are seen working in jungles. Engineers use machetes and construction machinery, like caterpillar tractors, to cut through the dense growth. Others saw and chop down trees and use explosives to clear the land. Explosives are seen detonating and tractors clearing the debris. Earth moving equipment and jack hammers being used to form a roadbed. View of two engineers setting and detonating a charge in a rock. A steam shovel loads earth into a dump truck. Road scrapers work in parallel to smooth the dirt roadbed. View of road after monsoon rains reduced one roadbed to a sea of mud and another inundated by water. To avoid these problems, rebuilding efforts begin by construction of causeways and bridges. Teams of workers lay planks for this. Closeup of worker tightening a clamp on a pontoon bridge under construction. Work gangs rolling and placing heavy logs as part of a bridge. Workers use a crane to lift segment onto a steel bridge under construction. Men bulding wooden and steel truss bridges. Aerial views from an airplane flying over various sections of the finished Ledo Road. A truck covered by a painted canvas reading: First Convoy over the Ledo Road, Pick's Pike Lifeline from India to China." Brigadier General Lewis A. Pick, Chief Engineer for the project, is seen, next, shaking hands with Lieutenant General Daniel Isom Sultan, Commander India-Burma theater, as he prepares to lead the convoy. View of the convoy starting out, led by the decorated truck. (Narrator states the road was now called, "The Stillwell Road." Views of the trucks proceeding and crossing causeways and bridges. Aerial view of the road twisting and turning across the high mountains. The convoy arriving in Kunming China greeted by Chinese troops and flags. Later, the convoy drives through the city streets of Kunming, with General Pick standing in a jeep, leading the way, and crowds of Chinese people cheering from the sidelines. In final scene, General Sultan states that the next project is a pipeline along the road.
Dugouts ("Yaodongs"),Huts and houses in a mountain valley where men graze domestic animals in a village of China.
Inhabitance in mountain village, Shaanxi Province, China. Houses carved out of mountain side (called "Yaodongs"). Valley under the foot of a mountain. Huts and houses in the valley. A man grazes domestic animals. A building in the village. Bactrian Camels loaded with luggage, a man walks along side.
Chinese Nationalist (KMT) forces engage Japanese at Teng-Chung (Tengchong) in Yunnan province (WW2)
Nationalist Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) troops of General Wei Li-huang's Chinese Expeditionary Force, operating during their Salween campaign of World War II. They attack Japanese 56th Division forces defending the city of Tengchong (Teng-Chung or Tengchung) in western Yunnan province, on the Burmese border. KMT soldiers are seen behind a tall fortification. A wooden box, at their feet, carries name of a company and a label reading, "The Largest Exporters of British Bottled Beers." The soldiers are firing recoilless weapons (bazookas). Other soldiers fire the same type weapons from a sandbagged field position. Other KMT soldiers are seen in a sandbagged trench, abutting a building. They fire rifles and hand-held machine guns. Famed war photographer, Wang Xiaoting (Wong Hai-sheng) better known as H.S. "Newsreel" Wong, is seen with a small hand-held movie camera, moving behind the KMT barricade. He films from a position next to a soldier firing a machine gun. Wong poses as he winds his camera.
Chinese Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) troops seize town of Teng-Chung, Yunnan Province, from Japanese, in World War II
Nationalist Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) troops occupying Teng-Chung (also Tengchong or Tengchung), a city in Yunnan province, on the Burmese border, during World War 2. The town is devasted by effects of war. A column of Chinese soldiers walks through the wreckage. The Chinese are seen carrying wounded soldiers on litters, down the hill from a fortification. Some ambulatory wounded are seen. Medics treat wounded Chinese soldiers lying on the ground. Dead Japanese soldiers are seen lying in trenches. A Chinese soldier reaches into the pocket of a dead Japanese soldier and pulls out a large Japanese flag. A column of the Chinese troops marches through a less damaged area.
Japanese troops land on Guangdong Province of China during Second Sino-Japanese War.
Japanese troops land on Guangdong Province, China. Japanese fleet off the coast of Daya Bay (Bias Bay), southeast of Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. Japanese troops disembark from amphibious boats at beach and advance inland. Japanese bombers overhead.
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