WW2 Burma Campaign 221074-04 | Footage Farm

If you wish to acquire broadcast quality material of this reel or want to know more about our Public Domain collection, contact us at info@footagefarm.co.uk Allied Chinese troops by plane to training station at Rangar, India - cleaning guns, shooting target practice, crawling on ground. Commander in Chief of India Command, Field Marshall Sir Archibald Wavell (later Viceroy of India) & Sir Claude Auchinleck. Training montage: obstacle course, rope climb, sky diving. Allied troops on road, disembark from ship, shows variety of nations within Allied troops: Gurkhas from Nepal, African, Naga head hunters, Burma Rifles & Chin & Cachan [?] tribesmen from Burma, Scottish, Irish, English, Welsh, Australian, New Zealand, Indian, Gurkha, Chinese & American soldiers, CUs. 05:22:53 LS road w/ long line of refugees on foot & carts, on stretchers, w/ babies. Pack mules over Himalayas to China. Air bridge: loading ammunition & supplies onto planes at air base, supplies flown to Burma across Himalayas. Animated map of Japanese offensive. Plane lands. Map of road from Ledo, Northern India to Myitkyina, & mountains. 05:25:47 Construction Ledo Road: Men, incl., Asian engineers, fit explosives on trees to clear way, hack thru forest, bulldozer. Workers chop & hammer. Land slides collapse on roads w/ monsoon rain. Men rebuilding. Ship at Calcutta dock unloaded, supplies piled, rucks, wire, tanks; flat boats & barges carry them up Hoogly River. Bengal Assam Railway, trains at station. Railway construction. Planes in from Calcutta. 05:27:39 Haggard Chindits emerge from jungle (jungle fighting force under British command), bathing. Statues of legendary animals Chindit name taken from. Chindit leader Brigadier Charles Orde Wingate. Early 1943, Chindits into jungle & across Chindwin River. 05:28:32 Quebec Conference: Roosevelt (FDR), Churchill & US & British Chiefs of Staff, Mountbatten, Stilwell. 05:29:09 Mountbatten w/ troops in South East Asia; his phoenix emblem. Felling tree. Colonel Luis A. Pick. Bulldozers & tractors clear obstructions. Allied Chinese artillery & infantry fight in jungle. WWII - India-Burma Campaign; Engineering; Ledo Road; Stilwll Road; Allies;