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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
Japanese aggression in China and various events leading to Japanese attack on U.S. at Pearl Harbor (WW2)

A hand writes check marks beside “Bases in the South Pacific” and “Conquer the United States” on the summary report purporting to reflect phases of Japanese so-called "Tanaka Plan". Animated map shows pressure by German forces in offensive against Soviet Union and illustrates German air war against Britain. Scenes of bombing destruction in Britain, including overturned double-decker bus in ruins of buildings. A Nelson Class British battleship viewed from dead ahead. She is followed by the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC. American newspaper headline reads: "Navy Bill Passes House." and "Huge Sum Voted for Two Ocean Navy." A line of U.S. Navy battleships underway, led by the USS Mississippi (BB-41). A field full of U.S. M3 Lee tanks moving in formation, as they are overflown by several Douglas B-18 bombers. Assembled Japanese leaders in a forum. Japanese Naval officers in a planning conference. Closeup shows Admirals Shigeyoshi Inoue and Raizō Tanaka pointing at a chart and conversing as other officers look on. Next, bomb bursts and black smoke rises as the attack on Pearl Harbor is underway. The USS West Virginia, USS Tennessee, and the USS Arizona, burning on Battleship row, during the attack. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek with staff officers walks to a waiting car. Forces allied with China, including American troops marching; British troops marching; and Dutch Colonial troops marching (in Batavia, the Capital of the Dutch East Indies). Japanese troops continuing their conquest of China, firing a field piece, and infantry charging. Newspapers announce Japanese advances into Malay Peninsula and Hong Kong. Others cite the Fall of Singapore and the Fall of Corregidor in the Philippines (6 May, 1942). Animated map shows Japanese occupation encompassing Indochina, Thailand, and Burma (with loss of the Burma Road) all of which compounded China's war efforts.

Date: 1942, May 6
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025191