Allied campaign in Burma during World War II. In Burma past events show late British Army Major General Wingate with British Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten and Colonel Filip Corkan as British troops depart for action. Aircraft in flight as paratroopers drop in the jungles of Burma. Allied troops advance into muddy combat area. Allied tanks and infantry advance into dense jungles. Wounded Japanese soldiers being provided medical aid. Natives gathered in an area. A Buddhist shrine. U.S. Army General Joseph Stilwell smokes a cigarette. Artillery being fired. An Allied tank gets damaged due to a Japanese land mine. Machine guns being fired by the Allied soldiers. An air base being constructed. General Stilwell cuts a cake to celebrate his 61st birthday.
A military film report on the advance of Merrill's Marauders (officially named 5307th Composite Unit) towards Myitkyina, Burma and recruitment and training of natives during World War II. Members of Detachment 101 of the Office of Strategic Services aboard a U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain airplane in flight over Burma. Merill's Marauders and native rangers in Burma. Animated map highlights advance towards Japanese-held town of Myitkyina.
The Royal Air Force bombs Burma during World War II. British airmen on an airfield in Burma. Bombs brought in on a bomb cart. An airman rolling a bomb to the underside of an aircraft to fix it onto the bomb rack. A few airmen fixing the bomb onto the bomb rack on the underside of the wing. A man in front of one of the wings of the aircraft and the pilot standing in the cockpit with the hatch open. The bomber aircraft taxis on the airfield and takes off. The aircraft in flight over the clouds. The pilot in the cockpit. Aerial views of the target areas in Burma. Bombs being dropped on the target areas. Explosions occur and smoke rises from the explosions.
Jungle Rescue mission in Burma. U.S. soldiers examine the wreckage of U.S. C-47 in jungle. Soldiers wade through water. Smoke is emitted from flare on ground. Aircraft overhead. Smoke spreads through area. Soldier talks into radio. Stinson L-5 Sentinel drops supplies by parachute. A Stinson L-5B Sentinel serial number 44-16876 carrying a crash survivor, taxis after landing, followed by an Army ambulance and a C-47 aircraft. Injured soldier on stretcher is carried to ambulance from plane. Words written on side of plane read "Spirit of Lafayette School." "Lincoln Park, Michigan. Donated by Pupils to the Army, Mar 17th 1944."
Animated map of India and Burma shows locations Myitkyina and Bhamo during World War II. Pontoons are hauled by trailer trucks along the Burma Road. The transport hampered as semi-trailers wide to cross the roads easily. Chinese troops bring pontoons by train. Chinese troops build a bridge over the Irrawaddy River. Construction work in progress. United States troops work.
U.S. 475th Infantry in Burma during the Burma Campaign of World War II. Chinese and U.S. soldiers with pack mules of the 35th Quartermaster pack train walk along a road. 475th Infantry soldiers march into Man-Tha, south of Bhamo. The soldiers are tired and sweating after a 18 mile march through a jungle.
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