King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan visits Taipei, Taiwan (also known as Formosa). King Hussein disembarks from a Pan American Airways (PAA) plane at Taipei Songshan Airport (No. 340-9, DunHua N Rd, Songshan District, Taipei City, Taiwan 10548). President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai Shek receives him. They shake hands and go on the carpet. They mount on a platform. Soldiers stand with flags in their hands on the sides of platform. King Hussein and Chiang Kai Shek salute. Crowd on road in Taipei. Policemen force crowd to stop. Cars are escorted by bikers. People stand beside the road.
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.
Taiwan during Japanese colonial administration in World War 2. View of the main hall of the Bangka Lungshan Temple or Longshan Temple (No. 211, Guangzhou Street, Wanhua District, Taipei City, Taiwan 10853), known as the Ryuzan temple during the Japanese colonial period, in Taipei. Dragons and human sculptures adorn the architecture of the Chinese folk religious shrine. Melons and lychees on sale at a fruit shop. A man sells Chinese herbal medicine near the temple. Worshipers tossing joss sticks and papers in the temple. A woman cooks street food. An old man stands at a shop. A man beating a drum while selling traditional Taiwanese items. A roof of the shrine with elaborate folk sculptures. Taiwanese people shopping in a market street. A close view of the Taiwanese people. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
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.
Planes from USS Essex (CV-9) strike Eiko airstrip, Taiwan during World War II. U.S. Navy TBF Avenger torpedo bombers in flight over Eiko airstrip in Taiwan. TBFs in flight over water. U.S. carriers underway at sea. Airman opens canopy of TBF parked on flight deck of carrier.
Planes from USS Essex (CV-9) strike Eiko airstrip, Taiwan during World War II. Aerial views of mountain range in Taiwan. U.S. Navy TBF Avenger torpedo bombers in flight over mountains. Bombs burst on grounded planes at Eiko airstrip. Smoke billows up due to explosions.