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Allied supplies being transported from Calcutta , India to Kunming, China through United States Army Air Force planes.

Allied supplies reach China for an action against Japanese in China. Allied officers outside a building in China as supplies from India are unloaded from trucks. Boxes piled up in a room. Shells and barrels in a field. A jeep being loaded onto a plane in Calcutta, India. Planes take off. Aircraft in flight. It flies over snow covered mountains. Aerial view of a river. A United States Army Air Force plane comes in for landing in China. Equipment being unloaded from the plane. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042286
Problem of getting U.S. supplies to China during Japanese aggression in China during World War II.

A film titled 'Coming Kunming' based on the problem of getting supplies to China and the activities of U.S. Troop Carrier Command during World War II. Japanese troops march into a Chinese town during Sino-Japanese war. They advance during an invasion. A map highlights the Burma Road linking Burma with China and Kunming, Yunnan and Lashio as its terminals. A Chinese woman works on the road. Trucks move along the road. The Ledo Road as an alternative to the Burma Road which had been cut by the Japanese Army. U.S. Army Air Force B-24 Liberator bombers in flight over the Himalayan Mountains. Inadequate dock facilities in Calcutta, India. A map details transportation problem. Native labor is used for the construction of a U.S. air base in India. Building of rail road lines. Chinese laborers work in China. Cargo ships underway at sea.

Date: 1945
Duration: 5 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060483
Azon Bombs checked for military operations in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II.

Azon Bombs in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. United States Army Air Force personnel unpacks the smoke flares from wooden boxes. Tests of flares and checks their continuity using some meter. In a laboratory a man removes gyroscope which controls the ailerons and rudder from a box to test them. He tests a radio receiver for frequency matching and then installs it in Azon Bomb assembly. Testing of the complete assembly and marking it as correct.

Date: 1945, January 11
Duration: 4 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036036
Azon Bomb assembly checked and approved for military operations by technicians, China-Burma-India Theater of World War II.

Azon Bombs in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force technicians perform continuity and other tests on various components of Azon Bombs in their laboratory. The indicators and meter readings display the results of the tests. Technicians with badges on their uniform check and assemble a tail section of an Azon Bomb. Another technician fills the check sheet.

Date: 1945, January 11
Duration: 4 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036037
Azon Bomb tail sections attached with smoke flares by a technician in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II.

Azon Bombs in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. A U.S. Army Air Force technician in uniform works with multiple tail sections of Azon Bombs kept in a series on a wooden board. He attaches smoke flares and fastens the screws with the tail sections using a screw driver. He makes entries in his record book.

Date: 1945, January 11
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036038
B-24 bomber of United States Army Air Force prepared with ammunitions for an operation in China-Burma-India Theater

Azon Bombs in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. B-24 bomber of the United States Army Air Force gets ready for an operation. Personnel loading the turret guns in the nose of a B-24 bomber. Airmen work and check its engines and other parts. A truck arrives near the bomber. Men roll bombs down from the truck. Men start attaching the bomb with the wings of B-24. A tanker fills the fuel tank of the bomber.

Date: 1945, January 11
Duration: 3 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036039