THE STILWELL ROAD Reel 1 · Part 10

Description

On the construction of the road from Ledo, India, across Burma to link with the old Burma Road from Rangoon into China. Explains the need for the road and how the territory crossed by the road wad acquired. Emphasizes Allied cooperation. Reel 1 shows building of the old Burma Road in 1937. Documents the Japanese campaign in Burma which won control of the road. Shows Burmese cities, refugees, and topography. Personages: Gens. Stilwell and Alexander. Reel 2, Allied troops train in India. Chinese refugees withdraw on the Burma Road. Supplies are flown from India to China. Construction of the Ledo Road is begun. Shows brief scenes of the Quebec Conference. Personages: Roosevelt, Churchill, Adm. Montbatten, and Gens. Marshall and Pick. Reel 3, fuel pipe line is laid through Burma. Col. Seagrave treats sick and wounded soldiers. Shows scenes of Chinese-American air operations training, U.S. marauders (volunteer jungle fighters), and U.S. air commandos. The Troop Carrier Command drops supplies in Burmese jungles and Allied planes bomb Japanese positions. Natives build air strips for B-29's in India and China. Explains the Allied tactics for capturing Burma and shows battle scenes of the campaign. Personages: Gens. Stilwell and Frank Merrill, Col. Philip Cochrane, Brit. Gens. Montbatten and Wingate. Reel 4, gliders land commandos and engineers in the jungles. Shows the resultant loss of men and equipment. Air strips are built and the TCC brings in other troops. An air strip and Imphal are defended against Japanese attacks. Shows Gens. Wm. D. Old and O.C. Wingate. Reel 5, Allied troops fight, with air support, in Northern Burma, capturing Mogaung and Myitkyina. Reel 6, Chinese troops take Lungling and Tengchung. B-29's take off and bomb Tokyo. U.S. airbases in China are burned to prevent their use by Japanese. Air supply is increased and work on the road is hastened. Gens. Pick and Sutton open the Ledo-Burma Road, and the first convoy is welcomed in Kunming, China.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Motion Picture Films from the Campaign Reports Program Series