The Stilwell Road - 1945 WWII Ledo Road Ronald Reagan 80720 HD
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The Stilwell Road was a propaganda film produced by the American Office of War Information and the British and Indian film units in 1945 detailing the creation of the Ledo Road, also known as the Stilwell Road after the U.S. General Joseph Stilwell. The movie was narrated by Ronald Reagan.
The film opens with a message telling the audience that the film is about more than the building of a road in the jungle; it is also the story of Scots, Irish, English, Americans, Africans, Indians, and Chinese working together to win the war, and that they are now ready to work together to win a peaceful post war world as well.
The hour-length film concentrates mostly on the importance of the Burma Campaign and the Burma Road in supplying Chinese nationalist army and American forces (the tactical Fourteenth Air Force and strategic XX Bomber Command of "Operation Matterhorn") in the Republic of China with supplies to resist Japanese domination, in much the same way Persian Corridor needed to be kept open to keep the USSR supplied by the Western Allies. But the forces there have confront harsh terrain and monsoons and are driven out in early 1942. Still, working in Assam and British India, the Allies work to keep supplies flowing to General Stilwell and Chiang Kai-Shek by making the Ledo Road which replaced the severed Burma Road.
Also covered are Japan's abortive invasion of India in 1943 and the gradual retaking of Burma.
This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD. For more information visit www.PeriscopeFilm.com
My father, LT. Col. David Gantz was in charge of all the truck operations going over the Lido-Burma Road. He fought there for five years - the entire war. He left me a framed copy of the secret map for the building of the Lido-Burma road. He told me that when the trucks began falling off the cliffs as the road was being built, he hired Sherpas to haul 100 pound packs of building materials over the hump.
God bless your father and all who served.
Please came to assam, the road is still there but operational after 1962 indo-china war
I would love to see the scanned or photographed secret map.
Could you please provide a scanned copy of it upload it in gdrive and provide the link?
To see the place where I was born is an experience in itself. The great war and the flight over humps is something that is unbelievable.
I am a veteran of The Royal Australian Navy. >>> What a great documentary! Thank you for posting it. I was thinking about how the world changes. During the time that this documentary is about, we, the Western Allies, helped China so much to fight against the Japanese. Today, Japan fights alongside us against the Chinese, who now would prefer we didn't exist, even though we helped them keep their country safe from the Japanese. Where is the logic in that?
In fact, there is none. It's like your best friend at school, whom you would walk home with and play games with daily, who suddenly didn't agree with you on a matter and therefore decided you would not be his friend anymore.
What a strange and dangerous world we live in. And I believe it will never change, at least not in my lifetime. We will always be in a state of war, somewhere on this planet of ours. But what can we expect from someone who was born just after WWII? I have been in a war myself and it is no way to live one's life. Except, we are duty-bound to protect our own country as well as the country of those we have promised protection. As the French say, c'est la vie!
My great grandfather was a sailor of ship being used during the construction of Stilwell Road.We possess a ship pass of that time at Lakhimpur Harbour of Assam.Now we are living in Ledo since that time.
Mr. Where are you now
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Historic Stillwell Road. Proud to visit this Road.
watching this film sitting over the stilwell road
39:24 glider pilot - master! well done! glider Waco CG-4A
11:38 Austin K2 (Y) or Ford "india" type???
12:04 GMC CCKW 353 А1
12:37 australian Chevrolet with wooden body or Ford С11ADF????
12:45 GMC CCKW 353
12:55 Wrecker Federal 606 C2
15:09 dozer Caterpillar D8
15:44 two GMC CCKW 353 next two Dodge WC51 & WC56.
16:00 line Autocar U7144T (4x4 tractor)
18:48 Dodge WC56
18:33 18:49 This is an early commander Dodge (WC6, WC15 and WC23, if without winch ) .
18:34 Diamond-T 972 dump truck
25:54 Dodge WC-52
32:09 Clark CA-1 Airborne crawler tractor and a LaPlant-Choate CAB-361 scraper bangshift.com/bangshiftxl/ebay-find-this-1943-clark-ca-1-airborne-crawler-tractor-and-scraper-are-awesome-wwii-pieces/
39:49 Clark CA-1 Airborne crawler tractor
48:07 Caterpillar D8 dozer
48:15 Brockway C666 with Quick-Way сrane with GMC CCKW 353 on 48:18 For cranes Quick-Way as an option annexed Backhoes , grapple and piling pile driver . All of this was transported on single-axle trailer , but this set was applied not to all mobile cranes
48:19 Coleman G-55A. with Backhoe Crane Quick-Way Model E
48:29 Caterpillar D7 (??) dozer, GMC CCKW 353
48:36 left Diamond-T 972 dump truck, right - Brockway C666 with Quick-Way сrane
49:25 GMC CCKW 353 with M36 gun mounting
49:33 Dodge WC 54 (ambulance)
49:35 three Studebaker US6.U1 or U3
49:39 Studebaker US6.U1 or U3
49:41 Studebaker US6 column, leader GMC CCKW 353 with M36 gun mounting
49:56 Studebaker US6 on a mountain streamer
50:06 Studebaker US6.U4 (6х4)
50:26 two 50:41 one GMC CCKW 353 with M36 gun mounting
Thank you!
Thanks for posting this, as Ronald Reagan will always be one of my faverites, Otto Orlowski helped maintain the aircraft as a mechanic, he was stationed near the hump in India for four years, he was my grandfather, if you had family in the CBI campaign I encourage you to look up "the CBI round up" a weekly news paper featuring soldiers and current events in the area, many of these where saved and can be read online, I found a blurb about my grandfather in one.
I live here and you should be proud your father helped making this magnificent road and develop our place 😊
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Stunned to see a great 'movie' ! They were real heroes indeed. Particularly laying of fuel pipeline along the road in those days
Sound effects are hilarious planes tires screeching in the dirt 😆
Going to visit soon
english subtitles please but no auto generated
Don't know this 😯
Stilwell had anti british and chinese tendencies!
There was no Russia in WW2.Some Russians fought for the Axis powers.
watching this film sitting over the stilwell road