Allied attack Japanese positions in China. An animated map of China shows transportation of oil and other supplies in the region towards south of China. A fleet of ships towards the China Sea. United States Army Air Force planes in flight as they strafe Japanese ships. Explosions occur at sea. Water gushes high up in the air. The ships are strafed. (World War II period).
Meeting of a committee in the United States. Officials seated inside a building. U.S. Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley addressing the officials. He talks about the United States policy towards China during World War II. Discussion about the mutual aid pact with China. He states that the U.S. always want the unity and democracy of the Chinese people. He declares support for a democratic China under the national government of the Republic of China, and Chiang Kai-shek.
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).
United States 14th Air Forces in China. Barrels of oil piled up. Chinese people loaded in trucks flee their villages due to Japanese attack. Trucks being repaired as men wok on the engine of the trucks. Chinese civilians and soldiers cross a bridge on foot. Wounded civilians being carried to safe places on litters. Chinese people clog the rail road track as they move to safer places. Chinese men loaded on a rail road train. A Chinese woman with her children. A wounded being carried on a litter. A Chinese man carries luggage. Chinese soldiers board a plane and it takes off. Soldiers advance along a hill. A map of China shows American 14th Air Force action in China. Cars move along Ledo road. Aerial view of the traffic on Ledo road. Figures symbolize number of ships and planes used, dead soldiers, and civilians in the operations against Japanese in China. (World War II period).
U.S. Army Air Forces XX Bomber Command Operations during World War 2. A Boeing B-29-10-BW Superfortress, number 42-6347, named "King Size," of the 462nd Bombardment Group, 769th Bombardment Squadron. It is seen here, at their forward operating base on Kiunglai Airfield, China. Tents are seen near the flight line. Numerous bombs are lined up on the ground ready to be loaded aboard the bomber. A B-29 taking off at nightfall. A formation of B-29s in flight. Bombs being dropped over Japanese installations at Hatto, Formosa (aka Taiwan). View of B-29 landing after the mission. (Note. Formosa was a Japanese colonial territory from 1895 to 1945.)
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.
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