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Stillwell Road - 4/8/2020 3:04:32 AM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		There is a US Army film on Netflix about the Ledo-Kunming Road.

It's a propaganda film but the film is probably stuff you have not seen before.

It's called "Stillwell Road"

See if you can spot the narrator.
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RE: Stillwell Road - 4/8/2020 7:23:30 AM   
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"Success was made possible only by the ability of men of all nations to work together. Study this picture carefully. Learn this lesson well. Because, unless we, the free men of the world, learn the lesson that it teaches we will never be able to maintain the peace, the freedom and the security for which all of us have fought."

Another lesson learned and forgotten?





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RE: Stillwell Road - 4/8/2020 7:25:19 AM   
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Status: offline 		I’ll add it to the list.

I think of all the blood, sweat and tears shed on building that road when it was pretty much a given that it would take too long to build to make much of a difference to the war, just for the jungle to reclaim most of it since...

The main point was to be seen to be doing something to try and keep China supplied and therefore in the war, rather than the actual volume of supplies that eventually trickled over it in trucks. If that’s the measure, it was a successful project.

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RE: Stillwell Road - 4/8/2020 7:39:30 AM   
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RE: Stillwell Road - 4/8/2020 9:46:08 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

There is a US Army film on Netflix about the Ledo-Kunming Road.

It's a propaganda film but the film is probably stuff you have not seen before.

It's called "Stillwell Road"

Does it mention, that Road was mostly constructed by African-Americans?

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RE: Stillwell Road - 4/8/2020 12:49:37 PM   
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ORIGINAL: inqistor


quote:

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

There is a US Army film on Netflix about the Ledo-Kunming Road.

It's a propaganda film but the film is probably stuff you have not seen before.

It's called "Stillwell Road"

Does it mention, that Road was mostly constructed by African-Americans?


Does that make any difference?

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RE: Stillwell Road - 4/8/2020 12:59:47 PM   
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ORIGINAL: inqistor


quote:

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

There is a US Army film on Netflix about the Ledo-Kunming Road.

It's a propaganda film but the film is probably stuff you have not seen before.

It's called "Stillwell Road"

Does it mention, that Road was mostly constructed by African-Americans?



The Chinese end was done by Chinese with picks and shovels but yes the film specifically mentions "Americans" and then shows African-American" bulldozer drivers on several occasions.

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RE: Stillwell Road - 4/8/2020 1:00:29 PM   
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When the project was launched it wasn't foreseeable that the atomic bombs would shorten the war by many months.



Good point.

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RE: Stillwell Road - 4/8/2020 1:07:41 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake


See if you can spot the narrator.



that guy that was in "The Killers", Cassavetes - no he was too young. Lee Marvin - No he got shot in the ass on Tarawa. Dang what is his name

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RE: Stillwell Road - 4/8/2020 1:26:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		I always saw it referred to as the "Ledo Road."

I don't have netflix, is this it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVyLkG7RXiw

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RE: Stillwell Road - 4/9/2020 1:35:16 AM   
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ORIGINAL: jdsrae

I’ll add it to the list.

I think of all the blood, sweat and tears shed on building that road when it was pretty much a given that it would take too long to build to make much of a difference to the war, just for the jungle to reclaim most of it since...

The main point was to be seen to be doing something to try and keep China supplied and therefore in the war, rather than the actual volume of supplies that eventually trickled over it in trucks. If that’s the measure, it was a successful project.


And the Chinese mostly stockpiled the supplies, so as to use them in the civil war after the Japanese were defeated elsewhere.

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