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The footage shows aerial shots of the Ledo Road. U.S. Army vehicles are seen driving on the road. Later, General Claire Chennault, China's Premiere Soong Tse-vung and General Peng Dehuai are filmed. China, 1945. The Ledo Road was an overland connection between British India and China, built during World War II to enable the Western Allies to deliver supplies to China and aid the war effort against Japan. After the Japanese cut off the Burma Road in 1942 an alternative was required, hence the construction of the Ledo Road. It was renamed the Stilwell Road, after General Joseph Stilwell of the U.S. Army, in early 1945 at the suggestion of Chiang Kai-shek. It passes through the Burmese towns of Shingbwiyang, Myitkyina and Bhamo in Kachin state. Of the 1,726 kilometres (1,072 mi) long road, 1,033 kilometres (642 mi) are in Burma and 632 kilometres (393 mi) in China with the remainder 61 km was in India. Soong Tse-vung, more commonly romanized as Soong Tse-ven or Soong Tzu-wen, was a Chinese businessman, banker, and politician who served as Premier of the Republic of China in 1930 and between 1945 and 1947. Claire Lee Chennault was an American military aviator best known for his leadership of the "Flying Tigers" and the Chinese Nationalist Air Force in World War II. Peng Dehuai was a Chinese general and politician who was the Minister of National Defense from 1954 to 1959.