16mm HOME MOVIES 1948 SHANGHAI, CHINA GEN. ROBERT EICHELBERGER MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK XD19614

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website 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