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WWII - China, Mission To Yenan (Jul44) Pt. 3 of 3

Reel Number: 221203-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1944

Country: China

Location: Aui,Te,Yenan

TC Begins: 14:20:41

TC Ends: 14:31:30

Duration: 00:10:49

Pt. 3 of 3 GI & ?? in doorway of C-47, boarding & waving. Mao & ??. Gen Hurley & ?? wave from door. US GIs riding ponies out of village. Pan of village or city of Aui-Te on hillside above valley floor. High angle of people across bridge. Pan of buildings along sides of hills above valley floor. 14:22:36 Boats along riverbank and soldiers, ponies loaded aboard. 14:23:06 Chinese troops running along mountainside. Boat arriving; Communist guerrilla troops in trenches, w/ machine guns. 14:23:57 Pan over destroyed village of stone houses. Soldiers on rock w/ map, looking across valley, line of people or soldiers moving. Bugler & soldiers waiting. Firing rifles from eroded gullies at guard tower. Soldiers running along ridge; others up hill to base of tower. Men run into tower, capture Japanese (?). Cheering from top of tower. 14:26:56 Soldier w/ binoculars; people returning to tower w/ bundles. Fire set & burning tower. Men shoveling down tower. 14:28:06 Valley floor and horses & soldiers marched thru people watching. Large cache of arms displayed & soldiers stack and display them. Pan over captured Japanese (?). 14:29:45 Group putting on dance performance. Valley & people work (LS). US & Chinese Communists talking in school or ?? Dinner table w/ fruit, etc. & panning over US servicemen relaxing. Zhou Enlai. Group posing outdoors. C-47 w/ motors starting & people shaking hands. Plane in snow. The End. WWII, China; Chinese Communists; Dixie Mission; Diplomatic Relations; WW2; 1940s; 1944;

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