Camera pans across scenes showing masses of Chinese. Narrator cites their large population as a war asset. Lt Gen. Daniel Sultan Commander of US Forces, India–Burma Theater (USFIBT) describes the Allied mission as simply "placing guns in the hands of men in order that they can kill our common enemy." He describes Japan's 1942 strategy of completely isolating China from outside help. Animated map shows Japanese forces attacking China from bases in Thailand and advancing north, driving British forces into India, and leaving Burma in Japanese hands.Glimpse of Japanese troops occupying Burma. Views of American troops evacuated to India. View of Chinese soldiers boarding U.S. Air Transport Command C-46 transport planes for flights from Kunming to Dinjan and Chabua, India. Closeup of some troops inside the cabin of a plane. Chinese soldiers await transport as a C-47 aircraft takes off in the background. Aerial view of two C-47 planes in formation. View from the air of high cloud covered mountains. Storm clouds over the mountains. Downward view from an aircraft flying over the Himalayan Mountains (called flying the "hump" by U.S. pilots). View of Chinese soldiers inside a transport plane. View out the window of a transport plane landing in India. A C-46 airplane taking off. A large formation of Chinese troops seen after more were brought from China to India, later in the war. American soldiers training troops of the Chinese 38th and 22nd Divisions. General Sultan speaks of the need to build up the U.S.Air Transport Command. Two C-47 airplanes on the ground. One named "The Joker." View of sky filled with B-24 Liberator bombers. Sky filled with C-47 transport planes. Chinese soldiers training in Kunming, climbing out of trench in live fire exercise with machine guns firing over their heads and explosive charges detonating near them. Air frame of a P-47 aircraft being loaded and several of Bell P-39 Airacobra aircraft being loaded aboard ship bound to strengthen the U.S. Army 10th and 14th Air Forces in Burma, in 1944. Covered P-47 aircraft without engines being towed by jeeps along a street in Burma. A large airfield with many U.S. fighter planes parked on its ramps. Engines being installed on P-39 aircraft. A flight line filled with P-40 aircraft displaying Chinese roundels. Some fly over a flight line of U.S. Army Air Forces P-39 aircraft. Glimpse of a fighter plane escorting a transport aircraft. A formation of B-24 Liberator bombers dropping bombs and exploding on Japanese ground targets. Workers are seen unloading large amounts of cargo from a B-24 bomber. Workers rolling a large bomb from the plane onto the tailgate of a truck.
Newly recruited American soldiers march from their quarters and line up for inspection at a World War I military training camp. U.S. Army officer inspects lined up men. WWI recruiting and training.
Sign on store 'War Manpower Commission. United States Employment Service'. Women receive training in engine shop during World War II. Women rivet in a training class. Women riveting in factory.
Women train as flight nurses. Buildings at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base. Guard house entrance. A car comes by. Military Police salutes. Students, including nurses of the Army and Navy, file into lecture room. An African American woman is among the group of nurses in training. An officer before a chart. An officer lectures on air and water movements. Another officer explains on water movements on a chart. Girls listen and make notes. An officer lectures on various pressures illustrating his talk on blackboard. A woman officer explains inter-personal relations. Students, some in Naval uniforms, whereas some in Army uniforms ask questions.
Two night trains collide on the Georgia railroad. Cranes try to lift the train engine and the carts. Rescue workers try to clear the railroad. Two engineers and one fireman die in the accident.
Industrial Geography of the United States regarding mining of Anthracite Coal. Demand for coal in various parts of the world. Shipping of coal via export from United States to other countries in the early 1920s. Coal car lifter picks up coal car. Train carries coal to different regions of United States. Train passes through snow covered countryside in United States. Availability of Anthracite coal in United States.
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