American Servicemen in China - WWII
A look at American Serviceman stationed in China during WWII and training Chinese soldiers
00:00 - 10:00
Fascinating color footage of Chinese soldiers during WWII inside Chinese village - Americans were allies with China during WWII and fought with the Chinese during the Chinese Burmese War - footage shows American Servicemen in Chinese Villages. Various of life inside the village, families, children, and of American servicemen working with Chinese soldiers.
BW newsreel footage
10:00 - newsreel footage on Japanese battle ship, bomber planes taking off, ground shots of American troops firing back - ground explosion - sign ""Babcock & Wilcox"" (is this the large construction company and it was bombed?)
12:45 - Slate: Gen Wede Meyer in Nanking - camerman Richard ""Ricky"" Leacock (Richard Leacock was a combat photographer during WWII in Burma and China)
Japanese soldiers seen marching carrying packs, pushing cart loaded with supplies, entering Nanking village
13:33 - Japanese leaving Nanking - views of Japanese packing up supplies and lining up
14:30 - newsreel - Slate reads ""Chinese Round out training in Yunnan""
- entrance to base has sign ""Little Fort Benning,China""
-Chinese soldiers in formation marching with rifles through dugouts and practicing shooting and maneuvers.
- American advisers seen - soldiers crawling under barbed wire with explosions going off around them, soldiers
practicing throwing explosives in training, putting on gas masks,
16:40 - Uniformed Chinese soldiers marching out of Little Fort Benning with American serviceman in the lead -
more views of Chinese soldiers practicing maneuvers
17:00 - air drops of supplies from planes overhead - groups of American servicemen with Chinese, Chinese
villagers seen gathering supplies and carrying them off back to village, scenes inside the village, young
children seen, women with babies
19:00 - American servicemen gathered around map ""Bougainville campaign"" - planning strategy meeting -
various shots of American servicemen as they review plans.