The attached short clip from the Showakan collection (originally from NARA), features General Albert Coady Wedemeyer arriving at an airfield in Nanking (note the sign in the very begining of the video confirming the location). He's shown around and spends a few momments posing in front of a captured Japanese aircraft; a Nakajima Ki-43 "Hayabusa" (Oscar) belonging to the 48 Sentai we saw in the previous post, with the number "35" on the tail and the pilot's name, probably Sgt Okabe, partially written behind the fuselage white band.
The date is not mentioned in the video but Gen Wedemeyer was indeed in Nanking for a meeting with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, General Marshall, Madame Chiang Kai-shek and others on December 21, 1945. It's a few months after the end of the war but I guess it's a possible date.
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