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Montage of scenes related to the China-India-Burma theater during World War II

Two U.S. Pennsylvania class battleships underway at sea, with other warships in background, during World War 2. One fires to starboard with her 14-inch guns from the forward triple turrets. U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bombers flying in formation over mountains. Glimpse of General Douglas MacArthur with General Joseph (Vinegar Joe) Stilwell in gunner's station of a bomber. Montage of brief glimpses showing U.S. forces engaging Japanese forces in: amphibious assaults; firing weapons in New Guinea and other Pacific islands. U.S. warship firing naval guns. U.S. ship firing at attacking Japanese aircraft, with sky full of black flak clouds. Admiral William (Bull) Halsey. Mitsubishi A6M Zero kamikaze aircraft blown up close to flight deck of U.S. aircraft carrier. It misses the ship and crashes in flames, exploding in the water, astern. U.S. General Joseph Stilwell, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, British Allied commander Lord Louis Mountbatten, and Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, photographed together in India. Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek seated for a picture with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Camera moves back revealing British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, also seated. Behind them stand key allied military leaders, including (from the right) Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, Commander-in-chief in India; Admiral Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South-East Asia forces; George Giffard — commander of Eleventh Army Group; U.S. General Daniel Isom Sultan, deputy to General Stilwell; General Joseph Stilwell, Commander China-Burma-India (CBI) Command; and General Albert Coady Wedemeyer, Chiang Kai-Shek's Chief of Staff. General Joseph Stillwell is seen stepping from a military cargo plane, and being greeted by another officer. Stilwell is wearing a campaign hat. He has the CBI patch on his jacket shouder. A B-24 Liberator bomber takes off from a Chinese base at Liuchow, or possibly, Luiliang, China. (ostensibly carrying Chinese soldiers to India for training). U.S. marked P-40 aircraft are parked beside the runway. They display the shark teeth nose art of the Flying Tiger All volunteer Group of Claire Chennault. But this is 1944 and the aircraft are from the U.S. 23rd Fighter Group. Chinese soldiers are seen being armed and trained in India, with modern small arms. They are also seen fording a river with military supplies and moving in jeeps through jungle-like settings. Various views of Ledo Road construction in Burma. bulldozers, trucks, caterpillar tractors, explosives and men are shown in construction work. A jeep rides along a muddy section of the new road while U.S. and Chinese soldiers patrol on either side to protect it. Allied soldiers firing a small field piece. A C-47 aircraft airdrops supplies to the road builders. General Stilwell, standing with a Chinese officer, looks skyward at the aircraft. A C-46 Commando plane taking off from a field in India carrying supplies. Men loading a jeep aboard a C-46, plus ammunition and other supplies. Rare sight of supplies being loaded into nose cargo compartment of the one-of-a-kind XC-108A transport plane (modified B-17 bomber, tail number 41-2593). A formation of USAAF C-45 transport aircraft flying "over the Hump." Chinese P-36 Hawk aircraft in formation demonstrate firepower. Newly trained Chinese pilots marching and walking on flightline where solid-nose B-25s and P-40s are parked. Chinese and American pilots wave to each other from their P-40 aircraft. A B-25 takes off flanked by two P-40s. Bombs being dropped by Chinese B-25s. Japanese ship being strafed by Chinese fighter plane. Chinese laborers at work building an airfield without machinery. A large group pull a paving roller by hand. Chinese troops in combat with Japanese forces. One firing a Czech ZB vz. 26 light machine gun. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek addressing the U.S. Congress, 18 February, 1943.

Location: China
Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025193
Allied soldiers and Chinese laborers work on Ledo Road construction during WW2

Animated map showing the Ledo Road, an overland connection between Ledo, Assam, India to Kunming, China during World War 2. This road would later be renamed the Stilwell Road. A 3D topography map of the Ledo route from Ledo to Kunming. A United States engineering unit along with Chinese engineers and laborers work on the Ledo Road. An engineer uses a transit scope, another soldier flips through his notebook. Engineer with transit scope waves at another from a distance. Soldiers plant explosives under a tree. Dynamite with burning wick under a tree. Tree explodes. Soldiers chopping away vines, weeds. A bulldozer clears away shrubs, scoops soil. An African American United States soldier operates a bulldozer. Two bulldozers driven by African American soldiers in jungle. Workers haul logs, hammer timber to make a log road in the jungle. Monsoon rain causing soil erosion on the side of a mountain during Ledo Road construction. Bulldozer moves alongside Chinese workers wearing conical hats. Trucks drive on mountainous Ledo road.

Location: Assam India
Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078821
Chinese civilians move to safer places and clog highways and rail road tracks in the process during a Japanese attack.

United States 14th Air Forces in China. Barrels of oil piled up. Chinese people loaded in trucks flee their villages due to Japanese attack. Trucks being repaired as men wok on the engine of the trucks. Chinese civilians and soldiers cross a bridge on foot. Wounded civilians being carried to safe places on litters. Chinese people clog the rail road track as they move to safer places. Chinese men loaded on a rail road train. A Chinese woman with her children. A wounded being carried on a litter. A Chinese man carries luggage. Chinese soldiers board a plane and it takes off. Soldiers advance along a hill. A map of China shows American 14th Air Force action in China. Cars move along Ledo road. Aerial view of the traffic on Ledo road. Figures symbolize number of ships and planes used, dead soldiers, and civilians in the operations against Japanese in China. (World War II period).

Location: China
Date: 1945
Duration: 5 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042298
Bomber aircrafts of the U.S. Army Air Force flying over farms, railway tracks, roads and river bridges in Moulmein Burma.

U.S. Army Air Force attacks enemy positions in Burma in China-Burma-India Theater during the World War II. Agricultural farms, railway tracks, roads and river bridges as seen by the 7th Bombardment Group (H) Squadron and the 4934 Bombardment Squadron of the U.S. Army Air Force flying over Moulmein in Burma.

Location: Moulmein Burma
Date: 1945, August 10
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036050
United States General Joseph Stilwell and Colonel Lewis A. Pick supervise the construction of the Ledo Road in India during WW2

Tree falls during construction of Ledo Road in World War 2. Aerial view of Ledo Road construction. United States General Joseph Stilwell and Colonel Lewis A. Pick closely watch the construction of the Ledo Road. A bulldozer push away soil in jungle roadwork. Truck drives on muddy road. A bulldozer pushes a fallen tree away. Chinese infantry arrive in Assam, India to help defend construction of the Ledo Road to China. Chinese soldiers wearing both United States and British military helmets marching. Chinese soldier fires artillery. Chinese soldiers move through jungle, shoots at Japanese invaders.

Location: Assam India
Date: 1943
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078825
Map of the Burma Road, aerial views of Burma Road, Chinese laborers working on the Burma Road in mountains

Animated map showing Burma Road, a road linking Yunnan, China to Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar). Aerial view of the Burma Road. Part of the Burma Road on hillside. Chinese laborers clear away rocks. Laborers use pickaxes for digging rocks. Laborers working on Burma road use sledgehammer to chip away rocks. Chinese laborers’ children smash small stones while playing nearby. Chinese laborers working on Burma Road in mountain slope. Film narration by Ronald Reagan (future United States president).

Location: Burma
Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078813
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