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American and Burmese instructors train Burmese students in the uses of a compass and medical procedures during World War II.

U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officers train Burmese recruits in Burma during World War II. The students learn the uses of a compass and medical procedures for helping wounded comrades. A Burmese instructor shows them a compass and demonstrates its uses. The students listen as he gives instructions. The instructor demonstrates the uses of a compass on a map on the table. A Burmese recruit stands on a table as another wraps a bandage around his foot to demonstrate medical procedures. An American instructor and the other students observe. The American instructor then demonstrates tying of a bandage around the head. The Burmese instructor guides the students to follow the same steps. The American instructor looks on as the recruits demonstrate plastering a broken arm. He guides the students.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021893
U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft drop parachute supplies over a Burmese jungle during World War II.

U.S. transport aircraft drop supplies in Burma during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft in flight over a Burmese jungle. A C-47 drops parachute supplies. C-47s in flight.

Date: 1943, December 25
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061562
U.S. soldiers detonate dynamite and a U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain drops supplies in a Burmese jungle during World War II.

U.S. transport aircraft drop supplies in Burma during World War II. Chinese soldiers dig a hole in a jungle with hand tools for a charge of dynamite. Kachin native workers look up. The workers extend hands upwards as a U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft drops parachute supplies. U.S. gunner Walter Dawson stands behind a machine gun. U.S. soldiers place dynamite in the hole. Smoke rises as the dynamite explodes. A Chinese soldier stands.

Date: 1943, December 25
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061563
Chinese soldiers load and fire mortar in a Burmese jungle at front lines during World War II.

Chinese soldiers fire artillery at enemy positions in Burma during World War II. Chinese soldiers load mortar with shells and fire the same.

Date: 1943, December 25
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061566
Allied Commander Stilwell, Somervell and Mountbatten arrive and meet at an airfield in Delhi, India during World War II.

Allied Commanders meet in Delhi, India during World War II. A transport aircraft lands at an airfield in Delhi. Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of the China-Burma-India Theater Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell gets off the aircraft. Officers greet General Stilwell. Stilwell smokes a cigar as he speaks to officers. U.S. Army General Brehon Somervell gets off an aircraft and is greeted by Lieutenant General Stilwell and others. Somervell smokes a cigarette. Another aircraft lands at the field. Supreme Allied commander of the China-Burma-India Theater, British Lord Louis Mountbatten is greeted by officers as he shakes hands.

Date: 1943, October 9
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022034
USIA film describing its Libraries and Cultural Centers abroad

Segment of U.S. Information Agency film describing its libraries and Cultural Centers that provide public information abroad. View of a USIA library displaying its name in English. Another USIA cultural center and library in Burma. Buddhist monks attend a lecture by the USIA. An Asian boy writing on desk. People assembled for lectures and discussions in such centers in various countries. Patrons surround a USIA traveling library in Burma. Visitors viewing displays in a USIA center. Chart showing USIA information centers closed by Communist Governments in Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, USSR, China, Hungary, Poland. Map showing Hakodate, Japan, where 40,000 residents signed a petition to keep a USIA library open.

Date: 1954
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024523