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British Army's 'Special Force' Chindits at U.S. 45th Mobile Hospital near Kamaing, Burma during World War II.

British Army's 'Special Force' Chindits comprising of Britishers, West Indians and East Indians at a camp near Kamaing, Burma during World War II. A soldier receives treatment for a shoulder wound at 45th Mobile Hospital of the United States Army. Gurkhas set up tents and hammocks. Men at the mobile hospital are treated for jungle sores, wounds and dysentery. The soldiers rest on cots in a ward.

Date: 1944, July 6
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061570
A truck convoy and Chinese troops on a flooded highway near Panjao, Burma (WW2)

A flooded highway near Panjao, Burma. People walk on the flooded street. Trees along the sides of the street. A truck convoy with Chinese troops is stalled on the flooded highway. (World War II period)

Date: 1944, September 18
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061640
U.S. soldiers with ox carts moving along a narrow muddy jungle road in Chaungtha, Burma.

101st Detachment of Karen troops in Chaungtha, Burma during World War II. Karen troops pull a cart on a pontoon bridge. The troops haul cart across the bridge. A Burmese native on an ox cart. He pulls away the oxen from the cart. The man takes the oxen across the bridge. Few of the U.S. soldiers with ox carts moving along a narrow muddy jungle road. T hey get off from the carts. The troops moving in carts.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069659
C-47 drop rations for Karen troops in a jungle and laborers supervised by soldiers carry supplies from drop zone in Burma.

101st Detachment of Karen troops in Chaungtha, Burma during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain in flight. The aircraft drops rations for Karen soldiers in a jungle. Several view of aircraft in flight dropping food supplies. Burmese workers being supervised by soldiers carry supplies from drop zones. The coolies carry food supplies using a wooden stick. A laborer tying supplies on a stick. They carry food supplies on the stick. The laborers collecting supplies at a particular place in the jungle.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069660
U.S. OWI (Office of War Information) leaflets being dropped by U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell plane in Shan village, Burma.

Dropping of U.S. OWI (Office of War Information) leaflets by U.S. plane on retreating Japanese troops in Shan village, Burma during World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell bomber in flight. Aerial view of B-25 dropping leaflets over village. Pilot in cockpit of B-25. Aerial view of mountainous terrain and jungle.

Date: 1944, April 1
Duration: 5 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075018
Construction of India-Burma-China Pipeline during World War II

Opening scene shows a large transport ship at a dock in Calcutta, India, during World War 2. It is surrounded by cranes unloading it. In the foreground, numerous sections of pipe are piled up on the dock. Closeup of group of pipe sections being lifted by crane from the ship's hold. Some individual pipes are seen moved by groups of Indian workers carrying them over their heads. Other Indian workers roll pipe sections onto barges that are seen clustered together near a steel bridge. A convoy of trucks is seen carrying the pipe sections along the Ledo road. Some bundles of pipe sections are carried on jeeps. View of an Army Air Forces C-47 transport plane taking off. Sections of pipe being offloaded from a C-47 plane. Numerous pipe sections in organized stacks near the airfield. Sections of pipe being fastened together. Engineers re-condition the road bed using construction equipment. Long connected pipe lines being pulled through water. Caterpillar tractors working on a muddy section of the road. Workers installing pipe near graves of workers who died from disease and other causes. Workers sending a bundle of pipe segments across a river by means of a Zip line. A worker's camp of tents in the background. Workers dressed in rain gear and boots carrying a pipe section through water during the Monsoon. Workers using machetes to chop their way through jungles. An open utility train moving Chinese troops along a single-track rail line, passes pipeline workers standing aside. Engineers and other pipeline workers distributing pipe sections along the rail line from railroad flatcars. Trucks driving the road, in Burma. Various views of the pipeline in including one showing lines of pipe forming a suspension bridge across a river. Other scenes show the pipeline crossing ravines, submerged under rivers, climbing vertical cliffs. Aerial views of the pipeline from low flying aircraft. A vehicle marshaling yard filled with army vehicles. M3A3 Stuart light tank moving past a yard filled with them. Army trucks moving out of their parking yard. Aerial view of large airfield with many parked Air Transport Command C-47 airplanes. B-29 bombers being refueled at an airfield. One is seen taking off. Lieutenant General Daniel Isom Sultan, Commander India-Burma theater, comments that the pipeline is a lifeline to our beleaguered ally and that the Chinese are in on this. Views of Chinese soldiers engaged against Japanese forces. They fire artillery pieces and heavy machine guns. British soldiers carrying Bren guns and struggling to move artillery pieces in the mud. They are seen firing artillery from under camouflage canopies and firing Vickers machine guns. Aerial view of the British controlled port in Calcutta, India, where war materiel is seen being unloaded. Tanks being transported on an Indian railroad. War supplies moving on a barge line and on roads. View of a British airfield in India. North Burma Chinese troops with their weapons and army vehicles. U.S. troops advancing on roads in the jungles. Chinese Marshal Chiang Kai-shek with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, at the Cairo Conference of November 22–26, 1943. General Sultan concludes the film by reassuring American soldiers that they are in the China-Burma-India theater in the common allied effort to fight against Japan.

Date: 1944
Duration: 6 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025200