14TH AIR FORCE IN CHINA DURING WORLD WAR II " CHINA CRISIS " FLYING TIGERS CHENNAULT 21874a
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- China Crisis was a black and white documentary on the operations of the U.S. 14th Air Force in its support of the Chinese Army, made in 1944. It was published by the U.S. Army Air Forces. The time period of the war was 1939-1945, and took place in China. The film was one of the 400 top secret propaganda/training films put out by the Army Air Forces. This one was Army Air Forces special film project 174.
Views of Free China, its industry, and its ports (0:14-1:16). The Japanese empire subjugated China (1:17-1:19). Rice paddy (1:31-1:34). The Chinese primitive irrigation system (1:35-1:47). The Kunming base in China, home of the 14th Air Force and the Flying Tigers, commanded by General Claire Chennault (2:17-2:58). A transport plane (2:31-2:35). Arial view of Calcutta, India’s seaport and docks (2:59-3:17). American jeeps (3:18-3:26). A transport barge on the Brahmaputra River which flows through China, India, and Bangladesh (3:56-4:00). Assam Calcutta Railroad (4:01-4:16). Army trucks (4:17-4:31). Heavy equipment crane (4:46-4:52). Chabua, Upper Assam, India where supplies are stored (5:50-6:13) such as barrels of gasoline, and bombs (6:14-6:23). A transport plane, loaded with equipment, is flown over the Himalaya Mountains, the Hump (6:24-6:45). Views of the Himalaya Mountain peaks (6:46-8:04). Kunming Lake, China (8:05-8:36). The Flying Tigers, American Volunteer Group of former Army, Navy, and Marine pilots (9:02-9:24). Robert T. Smith, WW II pilot and ace (9:30-9:33). Curtiss P-40 Warhawk aircraft first flown in 1938 (9:34-9:39). The Flying Tigers (9:40-9:53). Commander was Brigadier General Claire Chennault, Old Leatherface (9:54-10:00). P-40 Warhawks (10:01-10:14). Illustration of the need for the Flying Tigers to protect the Hump (10:15-10:42). Japanese air fighters and bombers (10:43-11:02). Footage of General Chennault’s famous fighter tactics (12:12-14:33). Illustration of the 14th Air Force tactics (15:18-16:00). Chinese people building air fields for the Americans (16:01-18:08). Slurry is made and carried by buckets to cover the foundation (18:09-18:40). Chinese air-raid provisions: A cave at Guilin, or Kweilin, for headquarters, Chinese spotters used telephones and radios, and saved pilots that had to bail out (19:21-21:06). The long range B-24 Liberator , B-25 Mitchell bomber, and P-51 Mustang fighter-bomber (21:12-21:21). Flying B-24 (21:47-21:54). Aircraft boneyards or graveyards supplied parts (21:55-22:05). Refueling the aircraft (22:54-23:03). Supplies are moved by trucks (24:12-24:23), Chinese Railroads (24:25-24:33), Chinese sampan boats (24:34-24:38), and Chinese junk boats (24:39-24:48). Illustration of tactic to affect Japanese trade routes and shipping (25:41-26:16). Footage of American attack on Japanese ships and land (26:18-28:20). B-24 landing (28:20-28:29). Illustration of Japanese tactics to fight back (28:40-29:15). Illustration of the East China Offensive (29:16-29:37). Footage of the aftermath of war (29:48-30:51). Americans dropped supplies to the Chinese (30:52-31:14). Footage of Gen. Chennault, Gen. Joseph Stilwell, and Gen. Clinton (Casey) Vincent (32:13-32:20). Footage of base and Chinese city destruction so the Japanese could not get them (32:30-34:13). Footage of Chinese refuge’s and soldiers fleeing the Japanese. They were protected by American soldiers (34:52-38:20). Illustration of Japanese movements (39:07-39:43). Summary of what the 14th Air Force did (40:03-40:31).
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My Dad was in the 14th. Went over the Hump many times. Stationed in Myitkyna, Burma, then on to Kunming. Was a crew chief on P-61 Black Widows.
I hope China and US will remember past friendship and become good allies again
Yes, thank you, sincerely hope a prosperou USA again. “With malice toward none, with charity for all,
with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in,
to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan,
to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” Abraham Lincoln.
The best explanation would be as follows, ua-cam.com/video/tDjgUCVq4Xo/v-deo.html
L.O.L. You mean like the friendship the Americans had with Ho Chi Minh during this period ? Ho saved the lives of thousands of these pilots when their aircraft were shot up by the Japanese and they couldn't make their way back to their base, having to bail out over IndoChina. Then it was a race between the Japanese who couldn't get their hands on these pilots quick enough, and Ho Chi Minh and his boys who would repatriate them back to the U.S. For his efforts, the Americans promised him they'd support his efforts at the League Of Nations, (today the U.N.) with his application for autonomy Government of Vietnam and the booting out of the French. Despite his valiant efforts, and the lives of many Vietnamese who died saving these pilots, the Americans betrayed them at the League and supported the French to remain in power in Vietnam. A very sad but sorry tail of the unconsiable behavour and betrayal by the Americans. Just imagine, if they had kept their word, there would not have been a war in Vietnam at all and millions of lives and a nation would never have been destroyed.
@@itchyvet Exactly, betrayal is an integral part of the official foreign policy of the US, Cuba, the Phillipines, Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Guatemala, Iran, Libya, Chile and many more were all promised freedom from tyrany.
Right now under the pretext of collaboration the US has taken over every single military installation in Australia and if Taiwan lets them they will do the same thing there, if fact, if the US says it wants to help you be scared, be very scared, The US has no friends, it has vassal states, that's all. Our only hope for now is that some more powerful international coalition says:
"ENOUGH, you stop attacking small countries or we will have to stop you". Same thing with the bullying with China and Russia, none of it is true, stop it.
@@itchyvet I think things are always complex more than we know. One thing, you know Ho was a communist. US cannot work with Communists. Same thing with Russia.
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28:19 my grandpa flew one of these b24s in China over japan at night
hero !
So is he gunner, pilot, copilot, navigation, bombay door or radio operator?
@@fakhrimaulana1572 He was the pilot
Liberator.
Thank you. My prayer is that the people of China and USA find a way to accept each other, live in harmony and peace. May the governments of both nations learn to work together for all their people. The suffering endured by the Chinese people can never be understated, never be forgotten - ever.
I am thankful for the Flying Tigers and the Chinese Resistance. The Chinese "Front" was also important as a strategic plan of the Western Allies.
YES, it was, no matter how many Chinese lives it took.
Jesus, I knew the CBI was a tough theatre logistics wise, but man! Those pilots flying the Hump should have all got DFCs at least
I think they may have all got the distinguished flying cross. My father was a navigator flying the hump and he had a DFC
Actually, they were all MERCENARIES, which were ILLEGAL Internationaly.
@@itchyvet No, possibly the early flying tigers is what you are thinking about. In later years they were a sanctioned part of what is now the Air Force. That is where my father flew.
My Dad was a navigator and he mentioned his pilot, I forget the name, could work magic with his planes.
感恩、銘記幫助我們抗敵的朋友，
敬佩懷念衛國英烈和參與支援抗日的先輩！
痛恨侵害中國人民的戰犯豺狼！
Thank you anyway, but they did not love China. Chiang paid them $500 for shooting down a Japanese plane.
@@SJMDLee . . . America Paid Millions of Dollars in gold to the Republic of China Nationalist leader Chiang Kia Shek to build those airfields, you LIE.
It's too bad there are those like you in China who believe and perpetuate the lies they are told . . . . . . . only so your dominating Communist rulers can get you to die killing Americans and other free Nation's Peoples when they begin their attempt to take the world. They need you to hate the people who love freedom, so that you never know of it in reality, and participate in the dirty deeds. The earth will moan, then the end will come . . . . . only then will the Earth be paradise again.
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@@SJMDLee Some were there for the good pay, but many pilots also went to china for their humanitarian beliefs.
This is what above and beyond means.
The "Zero" at 36:00 is actually an Army Ki-43 .
The Chiang's took gold to build those airfields and paid the workers peanuts.
Fighting Japanese not Chinese! Only later did the US/UK understand that the CCP was against everyone!"
actually CCCP just against Germany and Hun/Ro/Bul.and Invade Finland. US against Japan，Italy and Germany.1945 Japan is going to fail then CCCP attack Japan in Northeast China. Rob all chinese factory and rape local women. fucxxxx CCCP！
Well the Chinese in this documentary refers to the Republic of China which is now known as Taiwan
You can actually see the Taiwan flag 🇹🇼 at 9:23 instead of the People's Republic of China (PRC) flag 🇨🇳
Flying Tigers 🇺🇸🇹🇼 WW II. American Volunteers Group of the Republic of China Air Force 🇹🇼. Flying under the Chinese Nationalist flag . 🇹🇼 ( now in TaiWan ).
American Volunteer Group
There has never been a "head hunter" group in Tibet/Burma!
During WW2,their were thousands of head hunter villages thruout asia.The most feared of these groups were on the island of New guinea,and they still exist today.You better read up on your history my friend.😊
Your sooo wrong! My Dad was there and well remembers the Naga headhunters..with their facial tattoos.
@@kerryholcomb6781 Naga land, north India. Not Tibet or Burma.
ua-cam.com/video/5Mp6NedWqnU/v-deo.html&si=IUgzodkSvNQBiiet
Actually....there are at least 6 or 7 tribes of the Naga people in Myamar ,(Burma)
Dial the time ahead & C how screwed up it finally got; sociopaths in power work the same, no matter where in the world they R.
The West never gave up on the Chinese people!
Mercenaries!
SPOT ON !
Yes, and I think it's illegal.
@@rosesprog1722you're wrong
Yes and?
@@monarch1651 the good mercenaries.
At 7:00 he says: "Below, frozen wastes and jungle filled valleys, inhabited by head hunters". WHAT??? HEAD HUNTERS???? Ha ha ha, the propaganda wasn't very good at that time, but he tried.
You're clearly not very well versed on your history. There were still many large tribes of natives with "headhunter" or "boss" cultures in south Asia and oceania in the early 1900s.
@@monarch1651 He's talking about Tibet here, the Monks, the Himmalatas, not South Asia nor Oceania, listen carefully...
@@rosesprog1722 half of China is south Asia you absolute brainlet
@@rosesprog1722clearly you need to work on your geography as well. Tibet is in southeast Asia.
But why would he say headhunters ? Isnt that awfully descriptive of someone who hunts people to deliver them to someone else..did those exist in tibet or burma