Saturday 9 December 2017

Taiwan Crisis 1958 Newsreel


This is also worth a look, even if it's jam packed full of 1950's Cold War clichés! I particularly liked the Tawainese frogmen in their little bazooka equipped rowboats dropping plastic propaganda 'messages in a bottle' off the Chinese mainland to demoralize the Reds! I wonder if it worked? There are some really good shots of CNAF F-86 Sabres scrambling to intercept the Chinese MiG's and some ground attack F-84 Thunderjets dropping napalm on some suspicious foliage. Brilliant!

3 comments:

  1. Very cool link, thanks for sharing it.

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  2. It's great but I can't take those frogmen seriously. I wonder what happened when they actually fired those bazookas?

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