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Chinese refugees fleeing from Japanese invaders withdraw on the Burma Road during WW2

Chinese refugees flee the Japanese Invasion through the Burma Road during World War 2. Chinese refugees ride in horses, mules and various carts on the road. Refugees pass an overturned truck. A woman holds a baby while riding a cart. A Chinese woman pushes a cart. A mother and her small child in a cart. Two men carry a patient on a stretcher. Chinese refugees, wearing bamboo conical hats use carrying poles to transport belongings. Pack mules carry heavy loads while climbing the Himalayas and crossing from India into China with meager WWII supplies.

Date: 1942
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078819
United States Army aircraft airlift supplies to China over The Hump air route during WW2

Airlift of supplies from India to China through “The Hump” during World War 2. Barrels of oil in Allied airfield in Assam, India. Sikh Indian laborers, wearing Dastar turbans, load supplies on a plane as an American soldier watches. Man welding. Dismantled airplane equipment. Shirtless American soldiers inspect equipment before boarding plane. A Curtiss C-46 Commando takes off. Three planes of the American Transport Command fly over “The Hump”. Map showing flight route change from Dibrugarh, India to Kunming, China. A C-47 Skytrain flies over mountainous jungle, misty fog, and high mountains of the Himalayas. Various views of the Eastern Himalayan Uplift. A Curtiss C-46 Commando lands in Kunming, China.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078820
Allied soldiers and Chinese laborers work on Ledo Road construction during WW2

Animated map showing the Ledo Road, an overland connection between Ledo, Assam, India to Kunming, China during World War 2. This road would later be renamed the Stilwell Road. A 3D topography map of the Ledo route from Ledo to Kunming. A United States engineering unit along with Chinese engineers and laborers work on the Ledo Road. An engineer uses a transit scope, another soldier flips through his notebook. Engineer with transit scope waves at another from a distance. Soldiers plant explosives under a tree. Dynamite with burning wick under a tree. Tree explodes. Soldiers chopping away vines, weeds. A bulldozer clears away shrubs, scoops soil. An African American United States soldier operates a bulldozer. Two bulldozers driven by African American soldiers in jungle. Workers haul logs, hammer timber to make a log road in the jungle. Monsoon rain causing soil erosion on the side of a mountain during Ledo Road construction. Bulldozer moves alongside Chinese workers wearing conical hats. Trucks drive on mountainous Ledo road.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078821
Military supplies to China from United States and the United Kingdom transit from Calcutta, India to China during WW2

Workers load supplies in Calcutta port in India during World War 2. A crane lowers stacks of boxes. Indian laborers roll artillery shells. A row of United States army trucks. Various materiel and military supplies, including rolls of chain link fencing and rolls of barbed wire. United States soldiers prepare a row of tanks for shipment. A transport boat on the Hooghly River in Calcutta, India (present day Kolkata, India). Sign on boat reads, "Rambari." Transport boat sets sail for the Brahmaputra River. A train begins to depart on the Bengal-Assam Railway. Indian worker transfers boxes to another train during a stop. Laborers repair train tracks damaged by monsoon rains. United States Army Douglas C-54 Skymaster planes in flight.

Date: 1942
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078822
Chindit soldiers cross a jungle, sail on the Chindwin river in Burma during WW2

The Chindits, a Long Range Penetration Group of British and Indian soldiers, return to India from their ill fated mission cross the jungles of Assam and Burma during World War 2. A Chindit soldier pets a dog. Chindit soldiers take baths in small metal tubs. Mythical chinthe statues in Burma. Orde Wingate, British brigadier and leader of the Chindit units, speaks with military officials. Chindit column crosses a jungle. Chindit soldiers on boats on the Chindwin River the largest tributary of the Irrawaddy river. Chindit soldiers pushes small boat. One of the Chindit soldiers appears to be naked, and thus might be Wingate himself, given the Wingate was known to even greet visitors to his tent while naked. Chindit soldiers carry supplies in the jungle

Date: 1943
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078823
Allied leaders and military officials meet during the Quebec Conference to discuss the creation of the South East Asian Command in WW2

The Quebec Conference in Canada during World War 2. View of the Château Frontenac (1 Rue des Carrières, Quebec, QC G1R 5J5), in Quebec City. Conference takes place inside the Château Frontenac. Present in the Quebec Conference are United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, British Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, and US General George Marshall and Colonel Lewis A. Pick. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill seen together. Their chiefs of staff sit at a conference table and discuss important matters such as the creation of the combined British and American South East Asia Command (SEAC). Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, the appointed Supreme Allied Commander, during the meeting. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten speaks with military officers while walking away from a transport plane in Asia. South East Asian Command insignia depicting a phoenix.

Date: 1943, August 17
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078824