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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221203-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1944
Country: China
Location: Yenan
TC Begins: 14:00:14
TC Ends: 14:11:18
Duration: 00:11:04
Mission To Yenan (Jul44) Pt. 1 of 3 C-47 arrival & US army officers off & greeted; board back of truck. Plane camouflaged under netting. US & Chinese walk into compound, greeted. 14:02:17 Map of China & zoom in on Yenan. Large pagoda on mountain peak, people, horses, carts along road. Group walking into military base. 14:03:11 CU Zhou Enlai; Lin Piao (?); Others included per NARA: Chu-Teh, Yeh Chien-Ying, chen O, Nieh Jung Chen, Peng Te-Hua; Ma Hai-Te. 14:04:09 Mao Tse-Tung (?). 14:04:38 Military review. Visiting building complex on hillside & entering. Posing outside stone arches; very old men in heavy fur coats. 14:05:40 US military (& a few Chinese) on bandstand saluting as Chinese troops march past. LS of military parade ground. Chinese military officers (?) speaking from bandstand; US officers speaking. Chinese rebel guerrillas hiking thru countryside, single file w/ rifles & knives on ridgeline. Placing mines or bombs on road & covering. High angle of man walking on road, bombs ignited. Training w/ very old rifles. Native band playing w/ drums & single stringed instruments and dancing as many watch from shade, including Chou En-Lai. US military watching singing & dancing work songs & dances. Opera w/ narrative. WWII, China; Chinese Communists; Dixie Mission; David D. Barrett; Diplomatic Relations; 1940s; 1944; WW2;