Push South

Push South 30Aug44 - 15Sep44 CF 891. Wounded Australian soldiers on litters, into truck for evacuation at Onbaung. Wounded transported to airstrip & loaded into C-47s, take off for Myitkyina. 08:00:55 Burmese civilians & Australian soldiers rebuild railroad near Myitkyina. C-47s drop supplies at Sahmaw; supplies collected by Burmese on bullock / ox carts & taken to old Protestant church - supplies to railroad by elephants. Unloaded. 08:03:10 British troops fire mortars at Ingyingun. Dive-bomber (brief). British troops thru abandoned village. 08:04:12 Australian troops cross Nansan Chaung River on rubber rafts. 2 1/2 ton trucks towing artillery pieces stuck in heavy mud. 08:06:00 Australian troops hand pump water into canvas storage tank, add chemicals; from purification tank loaded onto pack mules - soldier in bivouac fills canteens with water. 08:07:14 2 1/2-ton trucks, spattered w/ mud & using chains, cross bridge at Sahaw Chaung. Soldiers on lookout by Buddhist temple. GOOD. 08:07:53 Lord Louis Mountbatten off plane at Myitkyina Airport, greeted by officers; sign: Seagrave Hospital. Mountbatten & Dr. Gordon Seagrave pose. American soldier shows Chinese soldiers how to operate flamethrower. Chinese soldiers practice using flamethrower o cave entrance. 08:09:50 Wounded Burmese civilians (many women, some appear to have been beaten) w/ Chinese soldiers after assault on their village? 08:10:47 Chinese troops & supplies at Kunming are loaded into C-47s, planes take off. Brief shot interior of plane w/ Chinese soldiers. WW2; WWII; Southeast Asia; China; Burma; 1944;