EVACUATION OF KWEILIN Part 1

Description

Summary: Refugees carrying belongings streaming through streets. Various shots, Chinese troops walking through outskirts of city. station jammed with refugees; crowded railroad train en route. Chinese betting aboard sampans. LS, pan, buildings at the 14th US Air base. Soldiers loading personal belongings aboard plane. MS, Gen Joseph W Stilwell with Gen Claire Chennault and another officer standing at plane. Sequence: Placing of demolition in airfield and resultant explosion. Night scenes of buildings burning on airstrip. Destroyed airstrip after it was demolished by US forces. AVs: Damaged airstrip, VS, burning buildings in Kweilin, MS, old Chinese woman sitting in street, Chinese soldiers unloading ammunition from plane and loading it aboard truck. AVs: bombs dropping, striking and exploding on Hochingshih. AVs: bombs falling and dropping on Hengyang. Smoke frog incendiary bombs over Changsha.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities