[U.S. Military in China] (silent)

Description: Content warning: close-up views of injured, frostbitten toes.

U.S. troops appear to be in China, possibly as part of Operation Beleaguer. Shows brutal winter conditions, sequences of jeeps and vehicles being towed from snowbanks, men stoking wood fires, and men receiving medical care - likely treatment for frostbitten feet.

Can marked:
"Reeves #2."

For more information on Operation Beleaguer: www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Marine-Corps-University-Press/MCH/Marine-Corps-History-Summer-2022/Marines-and-Mothers-AGENCY-ACTIVISM-AND-RESISTANCE-TO-THE-AMERICAN-NORTH-CHINA-INTERVENTION-194546/ (accessed 6/18/2025)

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Subjects: 1940s, War, Medicine, Weather, Military, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Asian and Pacific Islander history and culture

Tags: jeeps; snow; winter; snowing; pouring water into engine; mechanical work; towing stuck vehicle from snowbank; white out conditions; horses; military personnel; horseback riding; carrying a person on a palanquin; hiking down steep mountain; firewood; stoking stove with wood; setting off a canister of smoke; two persons winding for radio power in the field; hand cranked radio; bandaging injured feet; first aid; combing hair; combing beard; reading newspaper; parachutes; dropping supplies from airplane; filmed from moving vehicle; aerials; Operation Beleaguer; Chinese Civil War; burned frames; United States Marines; North China

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Contributor: Center for Asian American Media

Source Collection: Sasaki Collection, Center for Asian American Media Collection, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: circa 1946

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Geographical Location: China

Genre/Form: military

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: print

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle square

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 463