Battle of China, The R6

The Battle of China - Compilation film (Why We Fight) AVs Mountains ( Hump ) Donkeys picking way over trail 19:31:18 Draftmen at drawing boards - engineers. 19:31:26 Modern road building machinery. Chinese building the Burma road by hand - laborers using pick-axe - moving boulders by hand. Masses of men working on carving supply route out of mountain. Women & children working on road. Completed Burma road - supplies moved by convoys of trucks. Col. Chenault’s Flying Tigers overhead to protect convoys. 19:33:44 Animated map showing Japanese incursion into China & takeover of rail routes. Chengchow on banks of Yellow River. Animated map show original course of river & new course which occurred following flood. Yellow river in Spring flood - Chinese working on dikes to hold river on new course. Animated map show how Chinese deliberately blew up dikes to stop Japanese advance. Chinese refugees displaced by flood. Yellow river. Smiling Chinese. 19:35:30 Map - Japanese foot soldiers marching & military vehicles / RR advance into China. Chinese guerrilla fighters - some armed - some very young. Chinese guerrillas ambush Japanese patrol - explosions. Japanese troops bogged down in mud. List of Japanese war aims. Animated map showing Germany’s advance on Russia. Brief shots bomb damage in Britain. Royal Navy battleship. 19:38:33 US Capitol - newspaper headlines re Navy bill - re-armament of USA. Graphic The Tanaka Memorial - Japan’s Dream of World Empire. 19:39:07 Japanese parliament meeting. Japanese officers with map. 19:39:26 Pearl Harbor attack. Ships burning. Montage allied armies & of Japanese advances. Newspaper headlines - Malay Peninsula invaded - Singapore Falls - Corregidor Taken. Map showing how China lost the Burma Road. WWII; WW2; Asia;