The Chindits or the Indian 3rd Infantry Division of the British Indian Army in Burma during World War 2. The Chindits move through a jungle. Chindits with a pack train climb up a hill. Soldiers carry a wounded soldier on a stretcher. Another wounded helped into a plane. The wounded are evacuated by Stinson L-1 Vigilant.. A Stinson L-5 Sentinel lands. Supplies are brought for Chindits. Soldiers unload supplies from a UC-64 Noorduyn Norseman aircraft and put the boxes on a jeep. The jeep is driven away. Soldiers roll drums near a plane. A tent with supplies. A soldier talks over a radio. Chindits cross a stream in small rubber boats. British Brigadier General Orde Charles Wingate inspects the area. Orde with other officers. One of the officers with a cigarette in his mouth. A plane lands. A plane in flight over a water body. Royal Air Force (R.A.F) pilots fly the plane. Brigadier General Orde with another person in the plane. (First Air Commando aircraft in this film: Stinson L-1, Stinson L-5, UC-64 Norseman, Douglas C-47, P-51A Mustang.)
The Republic of China establishes its wartime capital at Chungking (Chongqing), China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Animated map depicts areas of Japanese occupation and highlights cities including Lanchow (Lanzhou), Chengtu (Chengdu), and Kunming. It highlights Chungking (Chongqing) as the Nationalist Republic of China. Chiang Kai-Shek is seen leading a group of Chinese leaders as they walk through an arched gate in Chungking (Chongqing). A busy street with shops and apartment houses in a commercial district. Busy scene of pedestrians, cart traffic, and automobiles in the road center. Boats on the Yangtze River are seen below long steep steps leading up to the streets above. Houses along the cliffs. Chinese workers digging bomb shelters into the cliffs. View from inside a shelter being hollowed out of the rock. Back in the Japanese occupied area, a car brings a Japanese Air Force leader who addresses a large group of fliers at an airbase. Next, Japanese aviator crews are seen running to their aircraft from their camp on the airfield. They take off in Mitsubishi G3M bombers to attack Chungking (Chongqing). Nakajima Ki-27 airplanes take off from the field and join in large formations overhead. A formation of Chinese World War 1 era aircraft is seen in flight to engage incoming Japanese bombers. Japanese crew member in a bomber sees the Chinese fighters and gunners in the bombers get ready to fire on them. The Chinese fighter planes dive at the bombers but are intercepted by Nakajima Ki-27 airplanes flying cover. Dogfights ensue with Chinese aircraft being shot down, and the bombers continuing their way. Air raid sirens sound in Chungking (Chongqing) and people run to their shelters, including school children. Views of bomber crews at their stations and then of bombs falling with the Yangtze River below. Bombs exploding along the riverfront and inland, along the cliffs. View of machinery operating, and Chinese workers occupied in underground factories in Chungking (Chongqing). Fires burning throughout the city from the bombing, and Chinese fire fighters with hoses working to extinguish fires.
Small U.S. military honor guard assembles at Saki airport in Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine to greet President Franklin Roosevelt and party who will be arriving on a flight from Malta. They form up near a parked U.S. Air Force C-47. The President's 4-engine VC-54C is seen on final approach. It lands and and taxis in. Palm trees seen in distance. Field is under construction. Several people deplane. Air Force officers standing by car on tarmac. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, daughter of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, descends ladder from the parked VC-54C Presidential aircraft (nicknamed the "Sacred Cow"). President Roosevelt is seen after being seated in front seat of car, next to young soldier driver to whom he speaks. They drive off, preceded and followed by jeeps, carrying other members of the Presidential party. (World War II period).
A view of the mall and capitol building in Washington, DC as viewed from the top of the Washington Monument. The personal plane of U.S. President (a Lockheed Constellation, Air Force designation: C-121, named "The Columbine") lands at an Washington National Airport. King Saud of Saudi Arabia and members of the Royal party disembark the plane. Insignia of the United States. Air Force honor guard. President Dwight D. Eisenhower greets him. King Saud's son Prince Mansur is carried down the ramp and is greeted by President Eisenhower. U.S. Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, salutes His Majesty. President Eisenhower speaks into a microphone and welcomes King Saud. The King addresses the gathering.
B-25 Mitchell bombers raid on Tokyo, Japan. U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell on the deck of USS Hornet (CV-8). A bomb comes up on a small elevator. USAAF Lieutenant Colonel James Harold Doolittle and U.S. Navy Captain Marc A. Mitscher stand near the bomb and talk. U.S. Army Air Forces men seated around the bomb. A view of Captain Marc A. Mitscher. Lt. Col. Doolittle wires a Japanese medal on the bomb for its return to the originators. (World War II period).
U.S. Army Air Forces Mitchell B-25 crews prepare for the raid on Tokyo, Japan, under the command of Lt. Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle. B-25 Mitchell on the deck of USS Hornet in the Pacific Ocean. USAAF men stand around a plane. B-25 Mitchell taxi and take off from the deck. Insignia of the United States Army Air Forces. A crewman gives a signal. A view of an empty deck. A B-25 taxis on the deck of the USS Hornet (CV-8).
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