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| Public Domain Films And Royalty Free Stock Footage |
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Public Domain Archive Film Stock Footage Library |
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| Available in NTSC formats: (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| Available in PAL formats: (72 hr. turn-around) |
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| DVD-R Time-Code Preview Disc (NTSC): (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| keywords: war, combat, world war two, wwII, burma road, stilwell road, military engineering, general 'vinegar joe' stilwell |
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Synopsis: Working in impenetrable jungles, 63,000 men construct a 478 mile road in 26 months enabling crucial supplies to flow into China... (read more) |
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Information: 1945 50 min BW |
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Scenes Include:
The construction of the road from Ledo, India, across Burma to link with the old Burma Road from Rangoon into China. Explains the need for the road and how the territory crossed by the road was acquired. Emphasizes Allied cooperation.
Shows building of the old Burma Road in 1937. Documents the Japanese campaign in Burma which won control of the road. Shows Burmese cities, refugees, and topography. Personages: General Stilwell and General Alexander. Allied troops train in India. Chinese refugees withdraw on the Burma Road. Supplies are flown from India to China. Construction of the Ledo Road is begun.
Shows brief scenes of the Quebec Conference. Personages: President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, Admiral Montbatten, and General Marshall and General Pick. Fuel pipeline is laid through Burma. Colonel Seagrave treats sick and wounded soldiers. Shows scenes of Chinese-American air operations training, U.S. marauders (volunteer jungle fighters), and U.S. air commandos. The Troop Carrier Command drops supplies in the Burmese jungles and Allied planes bomb Japanese positions. Natives build airstrips for B-29's in India and China.
Explains the Allied tactics for capturing Burma and shows battle scenes of the campaign. Personages: General Stilwell and General Frank Merrill, Colonel Philip Cochrane, British General Montbatten and General Wingate. Gliders land commandos and engineers in the jungles. Shows the resultant loss of men and equipment. Airstrips are built and the TCC brings in other troops. An airstrip and city of Imphal are defended against Japanese attacks. Shows General William D. Old and General O.C. Wingate. Allied troops fight, with air support, in Northern Burma, capturing Mogaung and Myitkyina. Chinese troops take Lungling and Tengchung.
B-29's take off and bomb Tokyo. U.S. airbases in China are burned to prevent their use by Japanese. Air supply is increased and work on the road is hastened. General Pick and General Sutton open the Ledo-Burma Road, and the first convoy is welcomed in Kunming, China.
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