Glider Operations Part 3

Description

This film shows gliders being towed into the air by transport planes and released over a landing area in Burma. The landing is made and supplies, including earthmoving machinery, are removed from the gliders. Wounded U.S. troops are given blood plasma and evacuated by air. General Stilwell deplanes from a reconnaissance plane and confers with Nationalist Chinese officers. British reinforcements land and man machine guns and howitzers.

Collection

Records of the Army Air Forces

Series

Motion Picture Films from the "Combat Film Report" Program Series