Allied jungle outposts get supplies by parachutes during World War II. U.S. General Joseph Stilwell looks as soldiers bring wounded on stretchers into a field hospital in the jungles of Burma. Lieutenant Colonel Dr Gordon Seagrave and Burmese nurses treat the wounded. American transport planes drop supplies by parachute on the outposts on the Naga Hills on India Burma border. An airman drops the supplies out of the plane. A map shows Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. A Fiji soldier on a radio. American transport planes drop supplies by parachute for the Fijian troops in Bougainville.
Allied planes fly over Burmese jungles and maintain the supply lines for their forces fighting in the China Burma India Theater during World War II. A British plane flies over jungles in Burma and lands in a lake. Natives on a raft load supplies in the plane from the raft. Another raft arrives with injured soldiers fighting on Burmese front. The injured taken for cure in the plane.
The use of the AZON (AZimuth ONly) smart bomb by United States during World War II. The Tenth Air Force Base in Burma. A soldier unpacks components of the AZON bomb. He unpacks a flare. Soldiers test the radio receiver. An airman conducts a final check on the tail assembly and inserts the radio receiver and battery. A 1 million candle power flare is fixed to the tail. The assembled bombs are brought to the waiting U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberators of the 9th and 493rd Squadrons of the 7th Heavy Bomber Group. The bombs are loaded onto the aircraft for mission targets in lower Burma. The B-24s in flight. The bombs are released. The flare is ignited by a delay fuse. Explosions on the ground as the bombs hit targets. The bombers in flight drop numerous more AZONs. They target roads, canals, and bridges. Six different bombs are dropped simultaneously.
U.S. P-40 Warhawks bomb Japanese positions in Myitkina, Burma during World War 2. Chinese and U.S. officers at an airfield in Burma. U.S. P-40s take off from the airfield to bomb Japanese positions. Formation of p-40s airplanes. They peel off and drop bombs on Japanese positions. Smoke billows up from explosions. U.S. Army General Joseph (Vinegar Joe) Stilwell steps from his C-47 transport airplane (named "Uncle Joe's Chariot") and is greeted by U.S. Army Brigadier General Frank Merrill (of Merrill's Marauders) on an airfield in Kandy, Ceylon, where he is to consult with Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia (SACSEA).
Commander-General Frank Merrill of U.S. 5307th Composite Unit ( nicknamed Merrill's Marauders) in Burma during World War II. Frank Merrill and his men aboard an aircraft over Burma. Merrill looks through binoculars from the door of the aircraft. Parachute supply sacks are dropped from the aircraft.
Chinese troops advance along Burma roads in World War II. An engineer camp site along a road in Burma. An aerial view of the roadside and the troops advancing along the road. The troops and pack trains on a mountain road. The troops with horse-drawn Russian 115 mm artillery piece. A mule team pulls the artillery piece along a hilly section of the road.
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