Clip

The Battle of China
Clip: 487659_1_20
Year Shot: 1940 (Estimated Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 270
Original Film: WPA 1667
HD: N/A
Location: China
Timecode: 00:57:55 - 01:00:37

TLS U.S. naval ships. MS artillery fired from battleships. MS U.S. Marines firing machines guns. (Jungle fighting on Pacific islands) LS U.S. marines going ashore. LS flak explosions dot the sky. LS Japanese fighter plane shot down, crashes into the sea. MCU Chinese liberators. (led by Lord Montbach) MCU/MS CHIANG KAI SHEK seated w/FRANNKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT & WINSTON CHURCHILL. (seated to the right of Churchill, Mme Chiang Kai-shek?) MCU Gen. JOSEPH STILLWELL. (chief of staff of Chinese expeditionary army) MS Chinese trained (in India) by U.S. troops. TLS/MS construction of the new Ledo road; dynamiting, bulldozing etc to meet w/Burma road. (troops protect the road) MS artillery. LS supplies dropped from airplanes. TLS air transport plane takes off. MS loading transport planes. LS planes flying over the mountains, the "hump." LS fighter jets fly by.