The War in the China-Burma-India Theater

Chang-kai Chek, leader of China at the time.

Then the video talks about the Flying Tigers.

The late 1930's, as Japan attacks China's southern coastal cities.

The route that supplies flowed into China until the Japanese took over the Burma Road.

Japanese troops attack Burma in December of 1941.

The Japanese then talked to the Burmese about “Asia for the Asiatics.”

The Japanese attack the Burma Road.

Areas under Japanese control as of late March, 1942.

An alternate way of getting supplies into China was developed.

“Flying the hump,” taking supplies over the Himalaya mountains.

Once the supplies were gotten to the airport in China, getting them to the actual troops proved to be an even more difficult task.

The Japanese advance caused lots of Chinese refugees to flee.

Japanese bombers attack China's new capital at Chungking.

Then the video talks about the Chinese Communists.

Off on another jaunt to Quebec. Another political meeting, this time about the China situation and how complicated the various command systems were. The decision to unify command was made.

American soldiers instructed Chinese troops on modern warfare.

The film then talks about the Burmese theater.

Then it talks about the Ledo road which was built to hook up with the Burma Road.

Merrill's Mauraders are then discussed.

An important airstrip is captured and fixed up for use.

The video then talks about U.S. policies in China in 1944.

Some U.S. bases were overrun by the Japanese, so the U.S. soldiers set the bases on fire first.

Chinese helped construct air bases for the B-29s.

U.S. planes bomb Mandalay and Rangoon.

The U.S. uses some radio-controlled bombs.

Rangoon is retaken. The Japanese had abandoned the city.

A truck convoy using the Ledo Road.



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