CAPTURE OF HSIANGTAN (SIANGTAN), NORTHEAST HUNAN PROVINCE, CHINA ; "AIR DROPPING", EAST OF LUNGLING, YUNNAN PROVINCE ON BURMA ROAD, CHINA Part 2

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Signal Corps ADC 1899 SOURCE: AFCF (C-017) Card 1 of 2 111 ADC FILM: Arch & APC MP, 822¹ ea Silent 1899-1 CAPTURE OF HSIANGTAN (SIANGTAN) Northeast Hunan Province, China; (No captions) Seq: Gen Chiang Gen Cheu., Gen Chun and Col Albin, US Army, and party come up hill and examine destroyed Japanese pillbox. Col Albin talking to Chinese officer. Col Albin and the Chinese officers checking map and discussing it. The group examines the outside of a Japanese dugout, looks at abandoned Jap equipment: supplies and other small items, helmets, shells. Col Albin and the Chinese discuss grenade abandoned by the Japanese. Decapitated and rotting corpse in ditch. MS, Col Albin and a Chinese officer playfully fence with two rifles. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, LIC 1, NY NF/ek Signal Corps ADC 1899 111 SOURCE: AFCF (C-017) Card 2 of 2. ADC FILM: Arch & APC MP, 822' ea Silent 1899-2 "AIR DROPPING" East of Lungling, Yunnan Province on Burma Road, China; 21 June 1944 HS, panel markers on the field. A Chirese lights a fire as another means of marking the location for the planes. C-47 planes fly in and drop supplies by parachute. Chinese and two American soldiers watch the sky as the chutes come down. MS, an American points out the parachute drop to a little boy. Chinese gather and carry away the supplies and stack them. An American listens as a Chinese shows him a list of the supplies. Cut-ins of Chinese looking off-screen. NOTE: Camera scratches in part of second story. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, LIC 1, NY NF/ek

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities