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Views of U.S. 7th fleet ships comprising part of the “Formosa Strait Force” established to keep peace between China and Formosa (Taiwan) in 1950

Elements of the U.S. Navy 7th Fleet designated “Formosa Strait Force” (Task Force 72), sent by President Harry S. Truman to keep peace between Formosa (Republic of China or Taiwan) and Mainland China (People’s Republic of China), in 1950. The U.S. Navy Destroyer Maddox (DD 731) underway. Views aboard the flagship of the Formosa Patrol, the light cruiser, USS Juneau (CL 119) as sailors respond to a drill. Two are seen entering one of the USS Juneau's gun turrets housing a Mark 12, 5-inch/38 caliber gun. Glimpse of the closed turret with single gun barrel seen at the front. Gun crew maneuvering one of the USS Juneau's quad 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors anti-aircraft guns. Sailors arranging shells for the USS Juneau's guns. Officers on deck pointing at other ships and observing them through binoculars. Glimpse of two landing craft (possibly Landing Craft Infantry) underway.

Date: 1950, January
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039883
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
A Taiwanese child reads from the book and sugarcane fields as seen from fast moving train window in Taiwan.

A train passes a railroad station in Taiwan. A child's Japanese book. A Taiwanese child reads from the book in Japanese. The Hokuho shrine. A Buddhist temple in the northern sector. A sign board. The structures on top of a shrine. People visit the shrine. A Monument in northern Taiwan. A train moves past behind the monument. The train crosses a railroad bridge. Sugarcane fields as seen from fast moving train window. A factory. The railway tracks. Animated map of the route of the train.

Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675069930
Lumberjacks work at a forest in Taiwan

A film shows the lumber industry in Taiwan. Taiwanese lumberjacks at work in mahogany forest. One is silhouetted against the sky as he climbs a tall tree trunk devoid of branches. He descends using ropes. A supervisor watches as a lumberjack uses a long saw to cut on a tree trunk that has already been cut from the other side. Camera pans up the tree.and back down again as he completes his cut and the tree falls to the ground. The base of the fallen tree trunk is seen to be hollow. Views of other trees as they are felled by lumberjacks. Closeup of the stump remaining from one. A log cut from a tree is lowered by ropes. Glimpse of valley across from the forest. Closeup off a steam whistle blowing. Closeup of a steam engine driver and arm in motion. A long log being lowered by a cable. Other cables seen strung across a rustic work building from which steam is venting. The log is deposited on a pile of others. A steam driven cable pulls logs on a small rail car atop a small gauge track. A very large log is lowered atop those a;ready on the rail car. Men with long pikes help position the log. Smoke blows out of a narrow metal chimney. A train carrying logs on rail cars moves through the forest. Views of a steam locomotive pulling a train of cars carrying logs.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675069926
A group of school children on mountain expedition and campers across footbridge to further ascend mountain in Taiwan.

A film shows the geographical features of Taiwan. A view of the mountainous area. A camper with a bag on his back looks at the mountains. A house in between the mountains. The houses surrounded by the mountains. A view of clouds over the mountains. A group of campers wake in morning and look at cloud formations below them. The campers with bags hanged on their back climb steps on the mountains and set off across footbridge to further ascend mountain. A camper heading towards the footbridge. Flowers that grow in mountainous ranges of Formosa. A group of school children on mountain expedition. The children climb up the mountain. They walk on a footbridge. A view of the mountainous area. A house surrounded by the mountains.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675069927
The Nauzan mountainous range and a train passes a railroad station and proceeds onward past mountainous area in Taiwan.

A film shows the geographical features of Taiwan. A lamp hanged in the foreground. The Nauzan mountainous range. Clouds over the mountains. A train passes a railroad station and proceeds onward past mountainous area. The train climbing the mountain. A conductor stands on a track in the foreground.

Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675069928
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