A diamond formation insignia on a CHINAT (Chinese National Acrobatics Team) pilot's sleeve in Taiwan. Pilot in cockpit section. The Assistant Secretary of Defense, Mr Shuff, walks with Chinese officers. Mr Shuff shakes hands with a Chinese officer. CHINAT Air Force F-84G planes taxi. CHINAT AF F-84G's taxi. Thunder Tigers, Chinese National Acrobat team, in diamond formation banks left and levels off. The underside of the Thunder Tigers in diamond formation as they roll to the left. Thunder Tigers in diamond formation.
Taiwanese women workers at a sugarcane field in Taiwan, arrive by a train. Women workers gather matured crops from the field. Workers load harvested crop onto tractor.
Conditions in Quemoy, China during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis. Western press and media representatives climb up a mountain in Quemoy. The newsmen at a beach. They examine damaged buildings destroyed due to the Communist Chinese firing. Damaged roof of a building. Explosions occur on a nearby island. Chinese children take shelter in the underground of a building. A damaged building.
Supply convoy reaches Quemoy in China despite the communist Chinese blockade, during Cold War. Ships carry the supplies at sea. Men on landing craft at the sea. Men on deck. President Chiang Kai Shek arrives at a press conference in Formosa. He opposes reduction of garrisons on the off-shore islands. Mainland China rebuffs United States peace bids with an enormous Chinese propaganda demonstration in Peiping (Beijing) on the grounds of the old Imperial Palace. Communist Chinese demonstrate with boards, placards and flags in hand. A huge crowd gathers at the palace grounds and decries what it calls American aggression in the Taiwan strait. President Zhou Enlai addresses the massive crowd.
Convoys of the 7th Fleet of United States Navy supply shipments to blockaded Quemoy, Taiwan, in Formosa Strait. U.S. carriers in the sea and fighter planes aboard. Fighter planes take off from the strip of one of the carrier. Carriers stop near the shore and supply liners cruise towards the shore of Quemoy. Commanders aboard a ship make plans and bombardiers on alert near an artillery gun on a ship.
Steel mill operated by the Steel Company of Anshan, the center of steel production in China during the Great Leap Forward. Smokestacks of steel factory. Hopper on conveyor rises outside steel mill. Foundry ladle pours metal. Row of open hearth furnaces. A foundry worker pulls a sample from a furnace. Steel mill workers silhouetted against glowing liquid metal. Hot steel bars roll on factory assembly line. Sparks fly above Bessemer converter. Chinese workers crowd in front of a small steel furnace. A steel mill worker in protective clothing works outside the small foundry. A worker looks into hearth and then turns to camera with a smile. A communist propaganda banner hanging in front of the foundry reads “We are determined to liberate Taiwan.”