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.
Chinese people in a narrow alleyway. Clothes hanging out to dry. Dancer dressed as a Chinese Dragon glides down the alley close to ground. Children watch the Chinese Dragon. Children play drums as part of the Chinese New Year ceremony.
A heroin addict prepares the narcotic for intramuscular injection and then . uses syringe to inject his upper thigh.
Officers of AAF(Army Air Force) with Chinese soldiers pose in front of a building. An AAF officer wearing bush jacket and pith helmet walks past a Flying Tiger Curtiss P-40 known as Warhawk. Mechanics working on P-40 fighter plane. An officer patting the nose of a P-40. Chinese laborers pulling a rope which is attached to a large roller across airstrip. Cumulus clouds seen. Shark's mouth and eyes painted on P-40's. Bombs drop through scattered clouds and smoke rises. (World War II period).
Views of a Flying Tigers Fighter Plane Curtiss P-40 in flight. Shark's mouth and eyes painted on P-40. Mountains and water below. Left wing of another plane.
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