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Flying Tigers work for United States Air Force in China

'Flying Tigers of China join U.S. Air Force '. Brigadier General Claire Chennault and Colonel Scott look at a big map of China out side a building with a picture of Chiang Kai Chek. Colonel Scott talks to pilots. Captain Wong of Chinese Air force welcomes him. Pilots of Flying Tigers group with Chinese flags on their backs. P-40 fighter planes take off. Brigadier General Chennault flies a P-40 plane.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058487
American war equipment sent to China through India (WW2)

'U.S. Speeds war aid to China by way of base in India '. A large war equipment box from the United States unloads in India during World War II. Indian workers push a large box on a cart. Railroad cars load with tanks. Camel carts carry war supply boxes along a road. Mechanics work on a Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport plane in a hangar. Supplies from a truck loaded onto C-47. Chinese pilot in cockpit of C-47 as he pulls over canopy.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058488
Royal Air Force bombers drop bombs over Nazi positions in European Theater

Newsreel entitled "Day and night RAF makes Nazis take it". Royal Air Force 20 planes in flight over water. Bombs dropped over an occupied French town under German control during World War 2. Ports and buildings bombed. Pilots get ready for a flight. Carrier pigeons in the cages. A man carrying pigeons hands over one of the cage to a pilot. Pilots board Halifax bomber and take off after the sunset. P-40 escort planes in flight. Bombs dropped over Nazi positions as flares seen at night.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058491
United States 900th Airborne Engineers construct an airstrip in Tamu, Burma

United States 900th Airborne Engineers construct an airstrip in Tamu, Burma. A man operates a bulldozer at the construction site of an airstrip. A small tractor and a grader used as a P-51 plane lands at the airstrip.

Date: 1944, February 15
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058619
Colonel Phil Cochrane and Lieutenant Colonel Arvid Olson inspect an airstrip in Tamu, Burma (WW2)

A United States P-51A Mustang fighter plane of the 1st Air Commandos, flown by Lieutenant Colonel Grant Mahony, lands at an airstrip in Tamu, Burma. Colonel Phil Cochrane and Lieutenant Colonel Arvid Olson inspect the airstrip constructed by United States 900th Airborne Engineers in World War II. P-51 Mustang takes off.

Date: 1944, February 16
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058620
United States 900th Airborne Engineers set up explosive charges at the construction site of an airstrip in Tamu, Burma

United States 900th Airborne Engineers operate bulldozers at the construction site of an airstrip in Tamu, Burma. Men set up explosive charges to blow tree stumps. Explosion occurs, causing massive smoke.

Date: 1944, February 16
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058621