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Premier of China Chiang-Kai-Shek and wife Soong May-ling poses for a photograph in China.
Premier of China Chiang-Kai-Shek in China during World War II. Premier of China Chiang-Kai-Shek poses with his wife Soong May-ling for a photograph.
Soviet General Vasily Chuikov, and advisors to Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) military during 2nd Sino-Japanese War (WW2)
People milling about near the base of a tall white monument with a Soviet T-34 tank perched on its top. A busy area in front of a big-city train station. It displays Russian and Chinese Nationalist flags. Smoke rises up from chimney behind the train station building. Closeup of smiling multiethnic civilians wearing warm coats standing in a group. The rear of a multistory building displaying posters of Chiang Kai-Shek and an unidentified official. A huge "V" hung over center of building, with sign in large Chinese characters on roof above it. View of front of building. It appears to be a headquarters. Some small obstacles placed on street in front of the building and some sand bags near entrance. Local Chinese troops walking in the street. A large poster on the street, showing Soviet and Chinese soldiers shaking hands. It contains message: "НАРОДЫ СССР ИКИТАЯ СОЕДЯИНЯИТЕСЬ" (PEOPLES OF THE USSR AND CHINA UNITE). Message is also written in Chinese above the picture. Many passengers are seen getting off train at open air depot. Men stand on top of the railroad cars, offloading bundles from train roof, with ropes. View of wide street with an official building at end. Flags from posts at sides of gated entrance. Donkey pulling a cart and a man with a hand cart seen on street. Crowded outdoor "camping" area, with many wooden tables and chairs, and multiethnic people cooking and eating. A market place, with donkeys standing by heavily laden carts. Owners wait to offload their goods for merchant buyers. A young man displays a huge bowl of rice. Workers on roof, making repairs to bomb-damaged building. Several pedestrians and animal drawn carts seen on the main road from the Headquarters. A jeep and a truck, with American White Star insignia on it, are seen in driveway of building. Sandbags at corner of building. Complete change of scene and time. Large central plaza with tall monument in center. Snow on the ground. Horse-drawn carts pass in front of an imposing building adorned with a huge "medal" containing a bas-relief of Josef Stalin; a huge Red Star, on the roof; and a large sign in Russian reading: "ОСВОБОПИТЕПЬНЦЕ" (Liberator). A Russian officer and two Russian soldiers with weapons. Soviet Lieutenant General Vasily Chuikov, special advisor to Chiang Kai-Shek in 1941, shakes hands with a Chinese one-star General in World War II. Another Chinese officer, in plain uniform, stands near.(Latter has injured nose.) [Important Note: This film appears to include segments from various unrelated places and times ]
Role of metals in Japanese war against China during 2nd Sino-Japanese Conflict
Scenes of Second Sino-Japanese War, circa 1938. Japanese soldiers observing battlefield from a ridge. Japanese artillerymen firing field pieces. Flight of two Mitsubishi Ki-15-1 light bombers in formation, later called "Babs" by the Allies and known as a C5M in Japanese Navy usage. Aerial view of Japanese bombs falling on Chinese cities. Chinese citizens, including an injured woman, seeking shelter from bombing. Aerial view of Chinese ship being strafed by Japanese aircraft. The ship explodes. Downed Japanese warplanes burning. Scenes of destruction from bombing of oil facilities. Iron ore being moved in Japanese rail cars. Steel plants around Yawata, Japan. Numerous containers of molten steel inside a steel plant. Hot Steel ingots being moved. Animated map shows locations of iron ore deposits in Japan. Scrap steel being imported that, narrator states, helped boost Japanese wartime production to 12 million ingot tons in the Sino-Japanese war. More views of open rail cars moving alloying elements to a steel mill. Open mining using explosives. Mining operations for copper and bauxite (aluminum ore). Japanese miners shoveling ore by hand into open rail cars. Open rail cars moving in both directions on parallel tracks. (Note: Although some narration refers to 1941 Japanese production, the images are from earlier period.)
A 1942-1943 film report to the American public about the progress of World War II in Europe and the Pacific.
Opening slate at start of film reads: "1942--1943 The Turn of the Tide." A column of British armor enters Bengazi, Libya, led by several troops in tankettes. Next seen are a Lee Medium Tank, M3 followed by an infantry tank, a jeep, another infantry tank and another Lee M3 Medium tank. Closeup of local people greeting the troops with upraised hands giving the "V" for victory sign. Another Lee M3 tank passes close by the camera. Black smoke is rising in the background. Scene changes to a half sunken ship near another burning in the harbor. Another view of this from further away above port buildings. Closeup of three smiling British soldiers leaning over a cartoon on a tank, of Winston Churchill (As a bulldog smoking a cigar and wearing a cap with the word "Victory" written on it). A crumpled captured flag with swastika on it. British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery stands atop a vehicle (unseen) and looks through binoculars. Below, a column of British supply vehicles is making its way along a path in the desert. Two tanks coming toward the camera through sand. Animated map shows Nazi territory being threatened by the Allies from the Mediterranean, the USSR, and the English Channel. Views of Soviet infantry advancing against German forces in the snow of winter on the eastern front. Soviet troops firing updated 76-mm divisional gun model 1902 hidden in woods. Shells exploding in snow-covered field as Soviet BT series tanks advance. Various Soviet artillery firing from fixed gun batteries and from woods. A shell striking in distance. Fallen German soldiers lying on snowy field. Makeshift battlefield crosses marking graves of fallen German soldiers. German steel helmets lined up in the snow. A sign, posted on a birch tree, lists the names and birth dates of 16 German soldiers from the 3rd Panzer Division (3Pz-Pi-BH.39) buried at this site on November 28, 1941. Scene shifts to Joseph Stalin addressing Soviet troops in Red Square, Moscow, Russia. All the soldiers in formation seem to be singing (unheard). Film switches to animated map again. This time delineating the Eastern front being pressed by the USSR, and showing area of the 2nd Soviet winter offensive in 1943. Change of scene from Europe to the War in Asia, against Japan, shows General Douglas MacArthur after arriving by a B-17 bomber at a Pacific island American base. He ascends a steep hill in a jungle area, accompanied by other officers. Closeup of MacArthur. American infantry moving in single file in New Guinea, as a field piece fires a round in the direction they are headed. U.S. artillerymen load shells into a 105mm howitzer gun. A fire burns as moping up begins on New Guinea. An Australian soldier is seen firing a Bren gun in jungles. Other Australian soldiers fire a mortar that explodes, raising earth and dust. More views of shells exploding near Allied soldier advancing. A soldier with fixed bayonet makes a fake charge toward the camera. Views of Japanese prisoners of war guarded in an outdoor compound. Japanese dead soldiers on Guadalcanal. An animated map shows new battle lines in the Pacific, closing in on Japan, with pressure from China, the USSR, and the Pacific islands being captured by the U.S. Arrows are added showing new pressure from American naval fleets and from British and American bombers out of Australia and captured islands.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt with Winston Churchill,Chiang Kai-shek and Joseph Stalin at different events in different continents.
Life of the President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the United States. U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt is greeted by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aboard HMS Prince of Wales during the Atlantic Conference for signing of the Atlantic Charter off Newfoundland in 1941. The ship approaches the harbor. Soldiers present arms aboard a ship. Prime Minister Churchill and President Franklin D Roosevelt talk. President Franklin Roosevelt addresses congress members after the Pearl Harbor attack. The President signs a document. President Roosevelt reviews troops in Casablanca. The troops march. Franklin Roosevelt salutes troops. Vehicles driven in the foreground. Cairo: Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill with the Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek. Tehran : Franklin D Roosevelt,Winston Churchill and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin pose. United States : The exteriors of the White House. People enter White House. President Franklin Roosevelt with Vice President Harry S. Truman at the 1945 inaugural ceremony. Yalta : President Franklin D Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin pose. Franklin D Roosevelt addresses a conference. (World War II period).
Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon showing hero names from Korean Campaign to the Vietnam War
View of the Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon, in the United States, during the Vietnam War. Names of the war heroes in the hall. Nameplates of the war heroes of each historical conflict on the wall. Names of the soldiers and officers who served the best in the wars. Names under the nameplates reading: 'Interim Period (1866-1870)', 'Korean Campaign (1871)', 'Interim Period (1871-1898)'. Other nameplates read: 'War with Spain (1898)', 'Philippine insurrection (1899-1913)', 'China Relief Expedition-Boxer Rebellion (1900)'. Several other conflicts mentioned in the hall. Other nameplates read: 'World War I (1917-1918)', 'Haitian Campaign (1919-1920), 'Second Nicaraguan Campaign (1925)', 'Word War II (1941-1945) and 'Vietnam (1964-Present).
