WWII - 1945, US Government Documentary: China Crisis - The Story of the Fourteenth Air Force Pt 1 of 4

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1945, Pacific - Supplying China Pt. 1 of 4 Titles. 08:01:37 Montage: Shanghai w/ harbor, waterfront, Bund, street scenes, traffic. City view from high balcony, steel & other factory, school, hospital, laboratory. 08:02:11 Japanese troops march in streets. Free China “where the fight against the Japs continues”. Village life, rice planting, pedal irrigation, water buffalo plowing, people thresh by hand. Food & flies. 08:03:03 LS Army truck, C-47 landing, Flying Tigers buzz field. Military transport taxiing; gasoline drums filled & bombs unloaded onto dirt by soldiers & Chinese coolies. 08:03:49 Aerial over docks of Calcutta, India. Stockpile of jeeps parked in Calcutta park; POV past large wooden containers / crates waiting shipment to Assam. 08:04:39 Men load barges; railroad w/ truck bodies on flatcars. 08:05:18 Men move bags from broad gauge railroad to narrow gauge track railroad. Overhead crane moving heavy piece of equipment. Men carry large gasoline drums on poles. Trucks transferred to narrow gauge. 08:06:06 Ferry across the Brahmaputra River w/ equipment; railroad car unloaded from ferry. 08:06:33 Airfield; supplies & barrels of fuel unloaded; bombs scattered on field. Transport loaded w/ jeep & small fuselage; transport taking off from Chapawa to fly over the hump. 08:07:27 C-47 & mountains; view over Himalayas. Clouds over peaks; jungle below; peaks / mountains. 08:08:42 Pan over Lake Kunming & farms & houses along shoreline. 08:09:13 C-46 transport landing past 14th AAF fighter aircraft; other C-46 parked on field. Gasoline drums unloaded onto truck. 08:09:34 Original Flying Tiger airmen talking in MCU in front of their P-40 planes. Loading machine gun ammunition. Pilot R.T. Smith & Japanese flags for “kills”. Pilots briefed w/ CU of rank of Major pinned on. 08:10:27 Brigadier General Claire Chennault walks out, in CU. Air to air of Flying Tigers past. WW2 History; 8th War Bond Drive; 1940s; South Asia; Resupplying; Army Air Force; USAAF; NOTE: Partial or entire card sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk