WWII Burma - Nampadaung - Taunggyi Push, ca 05Aug44

Burma, Merrill’s Marauders on Nampadaung Push - Aug44, may be May44 Radioman in jungle camp; men look at map. CU pointing at route. 00:40:40 Man climbs jungle tree, w/ binoculars. Planes overhead. Two men on field radios. Six planes in fomation over, multiple passes. Man on phone w/ map. 00:42:21 Two-engine C-47 plane dropping supplies. Ambulances & troops in clearing. Men & mules leaving. Radioman. Natives cleaning large artillery barrel. 00:43:30 Mule lead past Japanese grave markers. 00:44:07 LS firing artillery. MS Natives firing artillery w/ large recoil. 00:45:24 Truck convoy pulling artillery over dirt road. Trucks loaded w/ natives. Across muddy dirt road. Indians & others pulling cart w/ large wooden beams for bridge thru deep mud. WWII Pacific; Weather; Mud; 1944; Fighting;