The Stilwell Road / produced by Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Reagan, Ronald.

Presnell, Robert, 1894-1969

United States. Army Pictorial Service.

United States. War Department

Video Classics (Firm)

Heritage Broadcasting Service, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stilwell Road (Burma and India).

World War, 1939-1945--Engineering and construction.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Burma.

Burma--History--Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.

Burma.

Asia--Stilwell Road.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (50 minutes)) : sound, black and white

Edition:

Original uncut version.

Place of Publication:

Burbank, CA : Video Classics, 1985.

[Eugene, Oregon] : Heritage Broadcasting Service, [1985]

System Details:

digital

Summary:

Filmed by the U.S. Signal Corps and narrated by Ronald Reagan, this archival documentary reports on the construction of the Stilwell Road-originally The Ledo Road-a 478-mile passage from Assam, India, to Ledo, Burma, during World War II. This massive undertaking, by 63,000 workers and at a cost of 150 million as well as of many human lives, was a tribute to courage, determination and unique engineering. It would be utilized by the British, the Chinese and the Indian armies for the transport of vital war materiel-supplies, troops and other essentials-between India and China as part of a concerted allied effort to prevent Japanese Imperial troops from overrunning the China-Burma-Indian Theater.

Participant:

Narrator, Ronald Regan.

Credits:

Writer, Robert Presnell Sr.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on June 4, 2025).

Originally released as a motion picture in 1945 by United States War Department.

Description based on a videocassette record.

OCLC:

860713549

Publisher Number:

VCC 706 Video Classics

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.