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U.S. 10th Air Jungle Rescue Detachment performs Rescue mission behind Japanese lines in Burma during World War 2

10th Air Jungle Rescue Detachment mission in Burma, during World War Two. U.S. Airmen talk in front of jeep bearing Letters "AJR" on its windshield.. They examine a map. Ground crew pull props through on B-25 Mitchell bomber and clean gun turret canopies. View of pilots inside cockpit of B-25 in flight over jungle. A jungle rescue team discusses mission in front of a Sikorsky YR-4B helicopter parked at field. Pilot, Lieutenant Carter Harmon, climbs into cockpit of the helicopter. Ground crew seen pulling props through on a B-25. Views from inside a B-25 flying over jungle. The object of rescue is is seen. (TSgt Ed "Murphy" Hladovcak of the 1st Air Commandos, piloting a Stinson L-1 Vigilant with three wounded British soldiers on board, had been forced down behind Japanese lines, several miles from Mawlu, Burma.) Two B-25s are seen parked on a rough field. A white tent is nearby and many Burmese people are seen. Airmen are seen around a B-25. Brief view of happy airmen inside a vehicle. (Note: This is probably the first use of a helicopter for a combat rescue. )

Date: 1944, April 25
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052231
United States troops and Chinese troops advance in Burma (WW2)

United States tanks advance in Burma during World War II. Soldiers on tanks. United States troops and Chinese troops advance in Burma. U.S. troops walk through a wooded area. Soldiers and war dogs patrol in the forest area for retreating Japanese troops. Soldiers feed dogs with food. Dogs eating from soldiers' helmets serving as makeshift bowls. Troops near a Buddhist temple and a river. Troops with donkeys cross a flimsy makeshift bridge over water.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053490
British plane flies over Burmese jungles and carries injured soldiers fighting on Burma front during World War II.

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.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056371
The AZON bomb is assembled and dropped over target areas by B-24 bombers in Burma during World War II.

The use of the AZON (AZimuth ONly) smart bomb by United States during World War II. The Tenth Air Force Base in Burma. A soldier unpacks components of the AZON bomb. He unpacks a flare. Soldiers test the radio receiver. An airman conducts a final check on the tail assembly and inserts the radio receiver and battery. A 1 million candle power flare is fixed to the tail. The assembled bombs are brought to the waiting U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberators of the 9th and 493rd Squadrons of the 7th Heavy Bomber Group. The bombs are loaded onto the aircraft for mission targets in lower Burma. The B-24s in flight. The bombs are released. The flare is ignited by a delay fuse. Explosions on the ground as the bombs hit targets. The bombers in flight drop numerous more AZONs. They target roads, canals, and bridges. Six different bombs are dropped simultaneously.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057828
Lt Col Dr Gordon Seagrave treats the wounded soldiers in Burma and U.S. transport planes drop supplies at jungle outposts.

Allied jungle outposts get supplies by parachutes during World War II. U.S. General Joseph Stilwell looks as soldiers bring wounded on stretchers into a field hospital in the jungles of Burma. Lieutenant Colonel Dr Gordon Seagrave and Burmese nurses treat the wounded. American transport planes drop supplies by parachute on the outposts on the Naga Hills on India Burma border. An airman drops the supplies out of the plane. A map shows Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. A Fiji soldier on a radio. American transport planes drop supplies by parachute for the Fijian troops in Bougainville.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033599
U.S. P-40 Warhawks bomb Japanese positions in Battle of Myitkina during Burma campaign of World War II

U.S. P-40 Warhawks bomb Japanese positions in Myitkina, Burma during World War 2. Chinese and U.S. officers at an airfield in Burma. U.S. P-40s take off from the airfield to bomb Japanese positions. Formation of p-40s airplanes. They peel off and drop bombs on Japanese positions. Smoke billows up from explosions. U.S. Army General Joseph (Vinegar Joe) Stilwell steps from his C-47 transport airplane (named "Uncle Joe's Chariot") and is greeted by U.S. Army Brigadier General Frank Merrill (of Merrill's Marauders) on an airfield in Kandy, Ceylon, where he is to consult with Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia (SACSEA).

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061532