TAKING OF MYITKYINA AIRPORT Part 1

Description

Summary: Sequence: Brig Gen W D Olds briefs pilots. CG-4A gliders are hooked to C-47 planes. MS, Glen Olds boards C-47; gliders take off. Aerial views, glider from plane interior of glider, Irawaddi River from glider; pilot at controls; Gen Olds in C-47. Aerial view. Myitkyina airport. CU in glider, pilot releases tow line. Several shots gliders land; C-47 lands; CU wrecked glider. Loading supplies onto airborne trailer. First-aid to wounded soldier lying on ground, plasma injection; loading wounded soldier, also wounded Chinese, into C-47. P-51s strafing. Several shots, bulldozer in operation. Unloading Chinese mortar crew from glider, setting up mortar. MS, supplies and 5-gal gasoline cans are unloaded from C-47, also from glider. MS, burning wreckage of crashed C-47. Gen Joseph W Stillwell's C-47 in background. Several shots, Gen Stillwell gets out of C-47, speaks to men, meets Major Gen Frank D Merrill. MS, C-47 plane, insignia "Uncle Joe's Chariot". Sequence, conference, Gen Stillwell, Gen Merrill, hold conference with American and Chinese officers. Sequence at command post officers operate radio (walkie-talkie); soldier cranks generator for field radio. MS, Chinese soldier at 30 cal WC machine gun, Chinese set up 75mm pack howitzer. MS, captured Japanese on litter is interrogated.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities