1958 Original Press Photo by U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPHER
Looking to sea across the Taiwan Straits, the homeless Kinmen (Quemoy) standing on the beach have just seen a Nationalist Chinese LST which will evacuate the women, children and aged to Taiwan. The young men will help load the few belongings salvaged from the rubble of their houses destroyed by Communist Chinese bombardment. But the men will remain to keep the farms in operations and defend the island.








