Road to Freedom Pt 2 of 3

Road to Freedom Pt 2 of 3 Map - journey to Taiwan aboard 15 LSTs w/ escort ships & planes above. View from onboard LST. Released POWs singing (MOS) & clapping. 04:39:49 Welcome committee at Taipei airport incl. women for released hospital Taiwanese patients from Korea, rainy day, umbrellas & raincoats. Wounded carried thru welcoming crowd on stretchers to ambulances; others off plane wearing surgical masks. Nurses serve snacks. 04:42:28 Taipei hospital, VIPs visit patients. Overseas Chinese National Salvation Association & Overseas Chinese Students w/ speeches to patients & parcels distributed. Patient spokesman thanks visitors. 04:44:14 Chi-Lung, Taiwan harbor dock & convoy arriving past breakwater; men off ship w/ American marine escort; POWs thanked by Taiwanese military. Waving crowds & military band on pier. Returnees disembark, greeted by VIPs of Nationalist Chinese government in exile. Taipei’s daily newspaper distributed. Speeches - Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Jang Chang Wan?. 04:48:04 Major General C. William Chase (?); Filipino minister Emmanuel Deva?; returning soldier makes rousing speech & crowd cheers. Americans offered gifts for escorting convoy & embark on ship. Heavy handed anti-Communist propaganda; Anti-Red Chinese; Korean War - China - Guomindang KMT; Cold War; NOTE: This may be Chinese soldiers who decided to go to Taiwan rather than return to China.