Burma Campaign, The Stilwell Road, World War 2 Documentary, 1945

Please SUPPORT my work on Patreon: Visit my 2ND CHANNEL: Facebook: Twitter: Google+: Watch my WW2 in the Pacific PLAYLIST: This US Army film is a documentary about the construction of the Ledo Road (also known as the Stilwell Road after the US General Joseph Stilwell), a 478mile passage from Ledo, India to Kunming, China. It was built during World War 2 so that the Allies could supply the Chinese as an alternative to the Burma Road (which had been cut by the Japanese in 1942). The film concentrates mostly on the importance of the Burma Campaign and the Burma Road in supplying Chinese and American forces (for example the tactical Fourteenth Air Force) in China to resist Japanese domination. The British forces in Burma have confront harsh, jungle terrain and monsoons and are driven ou