WWII - 1944, Documentary: Back Door to Japan

WWII - 1944, Documentary On military activities in the Far East, especially Burma. Propeller turning - a pilot receives radio position signals ( swing music ) over the Burma "hump". Aerial shots snowy mountains. Air to air plane. Animated map showing supply routes and troop movements heading for Japan. Aircraft landing - unloading supplies. General Stilwell in office with other officer looking at plans. 11:51:14 Docks - Supplies arrive at Calcutta . Animated map showing overland route for supplies. Troops advance through jungle in Burma with Stilwell. Troops firing guns. Bulldozer making roads for supply route following advancing army. Road building. Flashback Spring 1944 - road nearly ready except for section near Myitkyina. Animated map showing troop movements. From the North Chinese troops trained and equiped by Americans push towards Myitkyina. British chindits moving forward, cross river. Merrills Marauders through jungle with horses - climbing hills. Mules slipping on mountain trail so marauders had to carry supplies. Troops under sniper fire. Troops firing guns - US aircraft QP-40s and P-51 overhead - Bombing and strafing planes assist the capture of Myitkyina airfield. Battle scenes as Marauders forward. Dead Japanese. Airborne reinforcements arrive with supplies. Wounded US troops broought in on native ox carts. Medical aid station, wounded treated - blood transfusion - surgery performed in open air. British Chindits and other troops including Australians fire anti aircraft (Ack Ack) guns shell Japanese planes. Shows destroyed US planes burning on field. Dead under sheets. Troops dug in - get post / letters from home. Monsoon floods. Military equipment and supplies under water. Rivers in full flood. Equipment bogged down in mud - airfield swamped - plane lands in mud, ends up on nose. Wounded and exhausted soldiers are flown to rest areas. C-47 crashes on take off from muddy airfield. Summer 1944 Aerial and ground view show the improved Myitkyina airfield planes taking off and landing. Animated map showing supply route now completed. General Stilwell in a plane. AVs road.