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Burmese workers construct bridge on Shweli River for Japanese soldiers to transport army truck in Burma.

Burmese workers construct bridge for Japanese soldiers on Shweli River in Burma. Japanese soldiers transport army truck across bridge. Troops sit on field with rifles in hand. Japanese soldier smokes cigar. View of damaged bridge on Shweli River. Troops cross water stream and enter town. Soldiers inspect captures enemy fortress and large cannons. Japanese officer looks through binoculars. (World War II period).

Date: 1940
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675043490
First convoy travels the Stilwell road after its completion in Burma.

Officers and men gather at the completion of the Stilwell road in Burma. Map points the area covered by the road. General Daniel Sultan congratulates General Louis Pick on completion of road. They discuss amongst themselves. A convoy travels the road. It crosses the army bridge. The vehicles stop at the gasoline station to fill fuel.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045611
An injured U.S. soldier is airlifted by Sikorsky YR-4B helicopter and and tended by medics in Burma during World War II

Aerial view, from a Piper Cub airplane, of small outposts cut out of the jungle in Burma, during World War 2. A Sikorsky YR-4B helicopter is seen in flight, below. Scene shifts to a wounded soldier being taken from a helicopter, placed on a stretcher. A doctor or medical corpsman with stethescope around his neck, speaks briefly to the patient. Next, he is carried into a field medical building. A C-47 aircraft is parked in the background.Some Army personnel, including a woman nurse, converse while standing near the helicopter. Several men push the helicopter backwards towards a cleared area. A C-47 is seen taking off. Final sequence shows cumulus clouds as seen from a fixed wing aircraft in flight.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052226
Stinson L-5 airplanes in flight over Burma (WW2)

A Jungle Rescue mission in Burma in World War II. Five Stinson L-5 Sentinel airplanes taxi and takeoff in rapid succession. Formation of five L-5's in flight over rice paddies. U.S. troops wade though river. L-5 flies overhead and banks. Man talks into portable radio on ground. A jeep arrives at an army camp in a cloud of dust. Two officers converse by the tent. A Stinson L-5 takes off.

Date: 1945, June 20
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052227
Native children in Burma look at United States C-46 Commando plane.

Jungle Rescue Group mission in Burma. A group of native children stand by a U.S. C-46 Commando transport plane. U.S. soldiers also talking by a plane. A Stinson L-5 Sentinel makes a landing. A group of native women poses in the shade of the airplane wing. Children look at landing gear of plane. Two young children climb up the plane's side ladder. Young native women pose and airmen hand out candy bars to children.. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052228
A U.S. Soldier demonstrates the use of a carbine equipped with a night vision sniper scope in Burma during World War II.

U.S. Army soldiers train with new "Sniperscope" equipment during the Burma Campaign in World War II. The 475th Infantry regiment of the U.S. Mars Task Force are seen gathered for a demonstration of the new Sniper Scope. A U.S. Army soldier demonstrates the parts and use of the sniper scope. He shows a carbine equipped with the sniper scope for accurate firing in the dark. He explains the functioning of the scope and how its attached infrared spotlight operates in conjunction with a telescopic sight mounted on the rifle to enable night vision. He looks through the telescope sight. He demonstrates the use of a unit, attached by a cord, that contains batteries and an electrical focusing attachment. He turns a focusing dial on the unit. The American soldiers examine the carbine and look through the telescopic sight. Narrator explains that the night scope will be used primarily in preventing night infiltration of U.S. held positions.

Date: 1945, February 6
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057827