https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/fc5e4c64-dbdd-477f-89aa-756976863f3b Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This film is one of a group of silent home movies shot by an unknown American who was working for the OMEA, or Officer's Moral Endeavor Association, a sort of non-governmental, YMCA type group operating in post-WWII China. The film was shot during the Civil War but before March 1948. It contains footage of U.S. Navy Baltimore-class cruisers (possibly – USS Saint Paul, and certainly USS Los Angeles which arrived in China on January 2rd 1946, as a part of 7th Fleet) of the so-called Huangpu River Flotilla which, at its most numerous, included 33 warships. The Flotilla was stationed in China from the end of the WW2 to 1948. These ships presented American logistical and military support for the Republic of China military operations and the KMT leadership. The film then shows the arrival of the US military attaché (?) and Gen. Robert Eichelberger, Commander of the Eighth Army (which was then occupying Japan), at the port of Shanghai. It also shows the meeting of Eichelberger and Soong Meiling -- Madame Chiang Kai-shek -- at an unknown concession mansion in Shanghai (possibly the OMEA headquarters building). The film ends with footage of an airbase and footage of Americans relaxing at a resort hotel, possibly the Manila Hotel in the Philippines. 0:21-0:41 Shanghai Bund, slow pan, to reveal the warships anchored in the Huangpu river0:43 American flag on the main radio mast, Christmas star, and signaling flags, possibly 1947 0:51 Forward batteries of a Baltimore-class cruiser 1:11 USS Los Angeles, a Baltimore-class cruiser,stern, 1:19 A British Navy – looks like a C-class - and an Australian (Commonwealth) Navy destroyer (looks like J, K, or N-class). 1:31 Chinese in a sampan 1:49-3:19 Sailing junks on Huangpu river 3:20-3:30 US military attaché possibly, eating something with a little spoon. 3:40 his wife, eating something with a little spoon. 4:00-6:29 Sailing junks on the river and at sea 6:30 A harbor pilot speedboat, named Asiatic Fireball, approaches, and a pilot boards the ship 6:45-7:50 USS James O'Hara (APA-90), a Frederick Funston-class attack transport. This ship served in WWII and after the cessation of hostilities, it carried troops via Eniwetok to the Philippines and participated in Operation Magic Carpet to bring troops back to the USA. 7:50- An official welcoming party at the pier, with an orchestra and military representatives 8:33-8:55 A banner, with words " Welcome to China　盟友眷屬來華 OMEA 勵志社 " Translation: OMEA for the Allies and their family members remembrance and friendship ties reunion. 8:56 A reception at the mansion in Shanghai, featuring Soong Meiling and Chiang Kai Shek's portrait. Tables are prepared in the garden 9:20 U.S. servicemen and Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party of China, military and their wives and dignitaries and their wives, talking 10:35 A KMT dignitary. 10:46-11:36 The wife of the US military attaché seen earlier, here wearing a green quipao-styled dress, together with the wife of Chiang Kai Shek – Soong Meiling . They sit down at the table with Gen. Robert Eichelberger. The latest date of this meeting, can be possibly in relation to the transfer of munitions to the ROC Air Force by Gen. Eichelberger's orders, and according to the U.S. policy, in March 1948. 11:37 At the airbase, unloading luggage from a car, near a C-46 of the Asiatic Wing of U.S. Navy Air Transport Service , NATS-Shanghai  12:12-13:01 Loading the luggage onto a plane, people boarding by the stair, rolling off the stair, plane departing 13:05 Woman smoking, a U.S. airman, friend or perhaps a family member, sits next to her13:25 People swimming in Southern-European styled open air baths, possibly the Manila Hotel in the Philippines but could also be in China. 14:00 Taking breakfast and smoking at the table 14:20 Southern-European-Latin-style hotel in a cloister, 15:22 Group of people taking a photograph photo 15:30-16:08 Mandarina ducks in a pond/stream, with a characteristically French checkerboard pattern low wire fence and a concrete-lined artificial pond/stream. 16:09 An Asian woman, U.S. serviceman's wife with her newborn 17:01 Looking into the camera which is pointing towards the ceiling and a window frame. 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