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Views of Taiwan under Japanese colonial administration. Botanical Garden, Bank of Taiwan building and Town Hall building in Taiwan.
A film shows the historical places in Taiwan, during Japanese colonial administration. Buildings of Taipei. Bank of Taiwan building. Traffic in front of the building. A view of the building. The building of Ministry of Transportation and Commerce. The Legislature building. The Town Hall building. The Health Shrine. A bell hanged on a rope inside the shrine. The Botanical Garden. Variety of plants grown in the garden. A historical building.
American Red Cross Gray Lady gives cigarettes to servicemen in Taiwan during Second Taiwan Strait Crisis.
American Red Cross in Taiwan during Second Taiwan Strait Crisis. American Red Cross dispensary in compound of U.S. Taiwan Defense Command in Taipei. Red Cross nurse comes out of the building. She enters Post Exchange and shops inside. She pays cash at the counter. She gets into a pedicab and drives off. She enters a hospital in the west compound and talks to a sick young boy and then a group of sick soldiers. She gives them cigarettes. A serviceman lying in bed pays for the cigarettes.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek salutes officers lined up on deck of U.S. Navy USS Swordfish, and leaves for Keelung in Taiwan.
U.S. Navy USS Swordfish with the President of Republic of China General Chiang Kai-shek, leaves for Keelung, Taiwan. Side boys stand at attention. U.S. 7th fleet Vice Admiral Charles D. Griffin arrives aboard USS Swordfish while the submarine is at a dock. Vice Admiral Charles and a U.S. officer stand at attention. Chinese Major General Hu Shu-kuang boards USS Swordfish after passing through ranks of side boys on the dock. A car arrives with the President of Republic of China General Chiang Kai-shek. General Chiang gets out of the car. The President salutes and looks towards the submarine. General Chiang Kai-shek with Hu Shu-kuang following behind as they board USS Swordfish. General Chiang Kai-Shek salutes various officers lined up on the deck of the submarine. General is greeted by Vice Admiral Griffin, Vice Admiral Ronald N. Smoot Commander of the U.S. Taiwan Defense Command, Major General L. I. Doan Chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group in Taiwan, and Mr. Joseph A. Yager of the U.S. Embassy. The General steps into a hatchway leading into the conning tower, followed by Hu Shu-kuang and other officers.
Tainan, Formosa (Taiwan) under Japanese colonial administration.
Views of Tainan, Taiwan under Japanese colonial administration. Steam locomotive pulling train, glides into railroad station in Tainan, Taiwan. People on platform near another track, step down and cross it to board from trackside, as others board from proper platform. Next is shown the front of the train station, in old town square. Palm trees grow in grass area. Pedestrians, a few vehicles, and a man pulling a cart are seen. Scene shifts to wide street with multistory buildings having shops on the ground floor. A woman pushes a baby in a carriage. A man pulls a wagon piled high with some kind of commercial product. Scene shifts to the Japanese Tainan shrine. Next a scenic park and lake are seen with a family dressed as Japanese, walking on the lawn. Another park-like scene shows a couple in Japanese attire, with their child, accompanied by two other similarly dressed women. Closeup of Taiwanese pottery items. A stone sculpture of a horse. View of the the Taiwan Confucius Temple aka the Scholarly Temple. Ruins of old Dutch Fort Zeelandia in Anping, Tainan, with ancient gun barrels layed out on porch floor. A tree is growing through the stone floor. Several sampans are seen being skillfully rowed in the water by boatmen in conical straw hats. Closeups of wooden boat sterns decorated with paintings. Children running along the waterfront past docked sampans. Views of memorial stones in the Anping cemetery. Workers skiming salt from evaporation ponds and placing containers of salt on small open rail cars. Closeup of containers that workers use to transport salt. Closups of rock salt. Views from moving railroad train moving across landscape. View from rear of speeding train, showing long straight track behind.
Summary of events in September and October 1950 as the U.S. engages North Korean forces during the Korean War
Segment introduction by Captain Carl Zimmerman. Animated map shows Pyongyang, Taegu, Inchon (or Incheon), and Seoul, and the 38th parallel. PyongYang falls on October 17, 1950 to U.S. troops. Troops advancing in PyongYang. A North Korean soldier is captured. A tank drives on a railway in PyongYang. A burning truck carrying ammunition explodes. A medic treats a wounded U.S. soldier in the streets of Pyongyang. A dead North Korean at side of road as troops advance. Bridge crossing at Pyongyang. North Korean civilians in Pyongyang. Interview with Corporal David Grey, Korean war veteran. 187th Airborne Regiment parachuters prepare to depart from Kimpo Air Field. C-47 and C-119 boxcar airplanes take off from Kimpo Air Field on 20 October 1950. Parachutes of the 187th Airborne descend to ground. General MacArthur views parachutes from the interior of his Constellation air plane. Soldiers loading up cattle with equipment. Jeep and Howitzer tied to skids are seen still attached to parachutes. Wounded 187th Airborne Regiment soldiers are gathered and placed on helicopters. Wounded covered with shield on helicopter before take off. North Koreans wave flags as U.S. soldiers advance. Map shows major invasion dates for Korea in September and October 1950.
Defecting, former Chinese prisoners reach Incheon harbor during trip to Taiwan.
Liberated Chinese prisoners from Korean War prison camps, getting onto U.S. trucks to reach Incheon harbor in Seoul, en route to Taiwan where they are defecting from Communist China. They were known as "Anti-communist Heroes." The United Nations Transportation Corps and the United Nations officials take care of transportation process. Chinese Ambassador to Korea and other officials bid farewell to the Chinese prisoners. Trucks loaded with Chinese prisoners move along road. Chinese prisoners hold flags on trucks. Trucks stop in between before reaching Incheon. Prisoners have soup. Trucks loaded with prisoners begin the journey. Incheon city streets decorated to welcome Chinese Prisoners. South Korean civilians line up streets. Chinese prisoners greeted by 47th Overseas Chinese Organization members and the United Nations band. Crowd with flags and banners welcomes the Chinese prisoners. Chinese opera with people in colorful dresses. Freed Chinese prisoners march in Incheon harbor. Chinese prisoners holding the Chinese flags march along pier. Crowd cheers at harbor. Stick points out sea route from Incheon to Taipei, Taiwan. Convoy of warships and planes escorts liberated Chinese prisoners heading to new life in Taiwan, Republic of China (ROC).
