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Evacuation Of Tachens Ends 1955
Description
Tachen Islands.
GV. Stores being assembled on beach ready for evacuation to Formosa (Taiwan). LV. Pan, mass of stores and soldiers landing craft off shore. SCU. Nationalist soldiers manhandling equipment onto landing craft. SCU. Soldier eating from tin with chopsticks. SV. Refugees walking...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sanja
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 30481
- Sort Number:
- 55/015
- Time in/Out:
- 01:42:08:00 / 01:45:34:00
- Canister:
- 55/15
- Film ID:
- 505.27
- Issue Date:
- 21/02/1955
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