The Nationalist Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) engaged in the Salween campaign of Western Yunnan Province in World War 2. KMT troops fire field artillery at Japanese positions in a valley. They also fire heavy mortars. KMT soldiers firing small trench mortars from positions inside destroyed buildings.
Nationalist Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) troops of General Wei Li-huang's Chinese Expeditionary Force, operating during their Salween campaign of World War II. They attack Japanese 56th Division forces defending the city of Tengchong (Teng-Chung or Tengchung) in western Yunnan province, on the Burmese border. KMT soldiers are seen behind a tall fortification. A wooden box, at their feet, carries name of a company and a label reading, "The Largest Exporters of British Bottled Beers." The soldiers are firing recoilless weapons (bazookas). Other soldiers fire the same type weapons from a sandbagged field position. Other KMT soldiers are seen in a sandbagged trench, abutting a building. They fire rifles and hand-held machine guns. Famed war photographer, Wang Xiaoting (Wong Hai-sheng) better known as H.S. "Newsreel" Wong, is seen with a small hand-held movie camera, moving behind the KMT barricade. He films from a position next to a soldier firing a machine gun. Wong poses as he winds his camera.
Nationalist Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) troops occupying Teng-Chung (also Tengchong or Tengchung), a city in Yunnan province, on the Burmese border, during World War 2. The town is devasted by effects of war. A column of Chinese soldiers walks through the wreckage. The Chinese are seen carrying wounded soldiers on litters, down the hill from a fortification. Some ambulatory wounded are seen. Medics treat wounded Chinese soldiers lying on the ground. Dead Japanese soldiers are seen lying in trenches. A Chinese soldier reaches into the pocket of a dead Japanese soldier and pulls out a large Japanese flag. A column of the Chinese troops marches through a less damaged area.
The French naval blockade off the French IndoChina coast.French naval soldiers aboard a French vessel, traverse an antiaircraft gun.French sailor armed with gun stands on guard on deck. Vietnamese sailors dock their wooden boats(junks) to the French vessel.French sailors inspect papers and cargo of the junks.The vessel moves on after the inspection.
Japanese Foreign Service Officers, in formal wear of top hats and tails, lead funeral procession for Akagi Chikayuki, Japanese Special Deputy Conmissioner of Police Section, Shanghai Municipal Police, who was shot to death.The procession includes a Japanese military officer; bugler and fife player; contingent of Shanghai Municipal Police; a Police Band; and family of the deceased. Hearse stops in front of Hankow Bank, where Japanese military pall bearers remove and carry coffin into a building across the street.They are followed by Shinto priests and monks.
Fu Tan University students gather and select a group representing them for journey to Nanking and lay their objective before President Chiang. Crowd gathered outside a railroad station. Police guards keep a watch. The selected people move ahead to board a train for the capitol without paying fares followed by police guards. Train leaves the station.