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Wounded Chinese soldiers are evacuated, treated and transferred to Ledo, Burma by L-4 airplanes.
Narrated News Reel footage. Wounded Chinese soldiers at a frontline hospital in Burma during World War II. Animated map shows Yupbang, Burma. U.S. Army General Joseph W. Stilwell watches Chinese casualties evacuated to a hospital near the frontline. Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave attends to the wounded Chinese soldiers in the field hospital. Burmese nurses with a wounded Chinese soldier. The American doctor and the Burmese nurses treat the casualties. A wounded Chinese soldier in a body cast. Chinese soldiers are transferred on stretchers and are loaded into a U.S. L-4 airplane flown by the 71st Liaison Squadron. An American pilot in the L-4 airplane. It takes off. 71st Liaison Squadron L-4 airplanes fly above cloud formation and land at an airstrip near Ledo. Wounded men are transferred from the airplanes to ambulances and taken to hospital. The airpanes take off.
Bombing by U.S. Army Air Force destroys rail roads and bridges with explosion in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II.
U.S. Army Air Force attacks enemy positions in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. The bombs dropped by the bombers of the U.S. Army Air Force target important railway tracks and bridges which act as supply chain for the enemy. A big explosion and smoke evolves at a bridge built on a river.
Wounded soldiers of U.S. 5307th Composite Unit (nicknamed Merrill's Marauders) are brought to Ledo airstrip in Assam, India.
Evacuation of 'B' Battalion of U.S. 5307th Composite Unit ( nicknamed Merrill's Marauders) from Myitkyina, Burma to Ledo airstrip in Assam, India during World War II. A U.S. Army Air Force C-47 transport aircraft lands at Ledo airstrip in Assam. Litter cases are carried from the airplane to a clearing station. Ambulatory patients walk from the airplane to the clearing station. A soldier receives a hospital tag. Wounded ambulatory patients get into ambulances. An ambulance pulls away from a loading area.
United States supply trucks move along the Burma Road in China.
A film illustrates the importance of the Burma Road in China during World War II. Animated map shows the Burma Road extending from Hsiakawan, China to the Burmese border. A truck moves along the Burma Road on the side of a mountain. A deep valley as seen from the Burma Road. U.S. supply trucks move along the road on the mountains.
U.S. supply trucks move along the Burma Road near Paoshan in Yunnan, China during World War II.
A film shows the Burma Road near Paoshan in Yunnan, China during World War II. Animated map shows the Burma Road and highlights Paoshan and Huitung Bridge. U.S. supply trucks moves along the road. Water of the Salween River flows over rocks. Chinese laborers stand along the Burma Road. A supply truck moves along the Burma Road on the side of a mountain.
U.S. Lieutenant General Daniel I. Sultan explains why troops are needed in India and Burma during World War II
World War II film about the China, Burma, India (CBI) Theater of Operations. A soldier is seen filling out a form seeking information about him and inviting him to write in questions about anything he hadn't learned through normal information channels. Scene shifts to Information and Education Department of the Burma-India Command, where it is being processed by a soldier. Lieutenant General Dan I. Sultan, commander of Burma-India Theater, is seen next, seated at a desk, with wall map of the region behind him. He is appearing in an information film intended to inform troops under his command. He notes that more than half the troops who filled out the information form, asked why American troops were stationed in India and Burma. He refers to the recent recall of General Stillwell and the splitting of CBI into two theaters (China and India/Burma). He states that the purpose is a path toward Japan. An animated map shows China (that narrator notes has been fighting Japan since 1937). Animation shows Japan walling off China from the outside world, by seizing her ports, and then concentrating its grip on the Eastern part of the country. Without access by sea, the allies had only one option to assist China in the fight against Japan. That was to open the Burma Road. Film shifts to scenes of Japanese bombing of Shanghai and Chinese civilians abandoning the city. Wounded and injured Chinese fighting fires while tending casualties in an open area. Glimpse of Chinese soldiers near one of their few large artillery pieces. A gun crew manning one of her few antiaircraft guns. Chinese jam road in trek to the unoccupied provinces of the country. Chinese carrying casualties on stretchers, making do without ambulances. Chinese coping in the face of all kinds of shortages. In contrast, well supplied Japanese troops are shown in formation. Japanese troops, military vehicles and equipment are seen. Japanese firing machine guns and heavy artillery against Chinese positions. Japanese armor and long lines of troops engaged against the Chinese, who continue to resist in spite of shortages and hardship. Chinese soldiers without shoes, marching in a column.
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