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Typhoon damage buildings and civilians wade through flood on Formosa Island (Taiwan)

Typhoon Amy devastates Formosa Island (Taiwan). Typhoon rain caused flooding in Taiwan. A bridge in the background. Buildings and homes sunk in flood in Taipei. A storefront with Chinese signage partly submerged in heavy flood. Damaged houses and trees. Civilians wade through flooded water. Half sunk cars in the water.

Date: 1962, September 10
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071410
B-29 bombers bomb Japanese targets in Formosa Island (Taiwan) and return to their base in Saipan (WW2)

Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers bomb factories and other targets in Formosa Island (present day Taiwan) and return to their base in Saipan, during World War II. Crew members attach guided bombs at dawn to the bombers. The bombers take off. Flying over Formosa Island over clouds they drop bombs on Japanese targets. Antiaircraft guns fired. The B-29 lands after a successful bombing mission. Crew of the B-29 'Tokyo Rose', first plane to fly over Japanese positions, honored at the Saipan base. Insignia on the nose of the plane. Brigadier General Hansel attaches medals on the uniforms of the crew members.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037151
Formosa under Japanese administration. Young children shift tea leaves and Formosan laborers pack tea leaves for export in Taiwan.

Taiwan under Japanese colonial administration. Taiwanese people in market place in Taiwan. Aerial view of the buildings in the city streets. Motorcycles, rickshaws and cars on the street. The commercial district and market place. People and traffic on the street. A view of the street. Buildings on either side of the street. People ride bicycles. A historical building in the center. Traffic on the street. The market place. The people crowd on the street. They shop from the market. A tea factory. The young children shift tea leaves. Formosan laborers pack tea leaves for export. A packed carton. A laborer transfers tea leaves into a box in the background. The packed boxes in the foreground.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675069921
Chinese Nationalist troops engage in training maneuvers on Formosa (Taiwan) in Spring, 1950

A Battalion of Nationalist Chinese troops assembled in formation on a ramp at an airbase in Formosa (Taiwan). They wear summer conical hats. Their Commander, a Major, calls them to attention and addresses them. Next, a Sergeant is seen briefing a squad of camouflaged soldiers. A landing craft stops short of a beach and Nationalist Chinese troops jump out, wade ashore, and charge across the beach. From different view, the beach is seen to have barbed wire and other obstacles on it. Smoke rises from live fire carried out at side of beach. The troops dash between obstacles and surmount a berm. Next, soldiers are seen riding atop two camouflaged U.S. M2 half-tracks, crossing a bridge, at high speed. They are followed by two U.S. Stuart M3 light tanks and infantry running behind. An infantryman running along a furrow in a cultivated field. Two infantrymen run through a rice paddy where farmer is working. One gets exhausted and falls down in the paddy. Two soldiers firing a mortar. Another soldier demonstrates throwing a hand grenade, and ducks for cover as it explodes. Three soldiers firing an M1917 Browning water-cooled machine gun. Goosestepping Nationalist Chinese troops parade along a wide dirt road, past several buildings. They raise considerable dust as they march.

Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068983
Formosan women walk in a park and weave straw hats in Formosa, Taiwan.

Activities of Formosan women in Formosa, Taiwan. A railroad station. Women wash clothes in a stream. A car drives on a bridge. Natives carry umbrellas and walk in a garden. They cross a bridge. A fountain and a building in the background. The Formosan stand in a balcony. A Formosan woman and a young girl swing. The Agricultural Inspection Center for fruit grown on the island. A man carries a basket. Ducks in front of a house. Workmen dry rice. Water buffaloes wade in a stream. Birds on a tree. Men seated in a grassy area. A young boy with a hat with his buffalo. Women make baskets and straw hats. Hands weaving straw hats.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Taiwanese
Clip: 65675069165
Huge logs are moved using an overhead trolley in a lumber yard in Formosa, Taiwan.

Activities of men at a saw mill in Formosa, Taiwan. A railroad bridge. A train proceeds southward. A bus drives on a dirt road. A view of the countryside from the train. The train moves past a railroad station. A bus drives past a building. A car drives on a street. Huge logs are moved using an overhead trolley in a lumber yard. A trolley carries a wooden log and drops the log in a river. A log kept on a conveyor belt in a saw mill. Men at work in the mill. A man stencil boards of lumber.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Taiwanese
Clip: 65675069166