CAPTURE OF MYITKYINA AIRFIELD Part 2

Description

Summary: MS and CUs, American engineers load equipment into gliders. MSs and CUs, gliders are attached to C-47s; troops enter gliders; C-47s tow gliders.AV, Myitkyina Airfield. MS, gliders land; one hurdles another glider and crashes. MSs, and CUs, injured glider pilot is given plasma and put aboard C-47. MSs and LSs, airborne bulldozers repair field, pull rollers. MS, command post set up in revetment with radio sets and field telephones. LSs, Chinese airborne troops and equipment are loaded into C-47s which take off. LSs, Chinese troops and supplies unload from C-47s on airfield. MSs, Chinese troops go into jungle surrounding airfield. CUs, C-47 marked "Uncle Joe 's Chariot"; MS, General Joseph W Stilwell standing near plane. MSs, and CUs, wounded Japanese. MS, dead Japanese on airstrip. MS, American soldiers sleeping on ground in the rain, covered with shelter halves. MS, CUs, Dr Gordon Seagraves wearing campaign hat, operating on wounded Chinese soldier at field hospital (exts). VS, American doctors and Burmese nurses attending the wounded. MS, British antiaircraft crew on the field. MS, planes drop supplies and rations. MS, supplies and rations are packed on mules for Merrill's Marauders. MS, P-51s land and take off on airstrip. LS, P-51s attacking Japanese positions.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities