Chinese Take Tenchung On Burma Road AKA… 1944

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Item title reads - Chinese take Tengchung on Burma road.

L/S of hills covered in smoke. Various shots of Chinese troops firing tommy guns, bazookas, heavy mortars. The infantry advances. Various shots as they storm the city walls with the aid of ladders. M/S as a wounded man is carried on...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
44815
Sort Number:
44/093
Time in/Out:
01:38:12:00 / 01:39:11:00
Canister:
44/93
Film ID:
1368.17
Issue Date:
20/11/1944

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