# U.S. NAVY SEVENTH FLEET IN KOREAN WAR, FORMOSA CRISIS, COLD WAR (see also 64554 -- second print) 73492

Made in 1957 by the U.S. Navy about the Seventh Fleet, this historic film shows the activities of the 7th during the Korean War, and during the Formosa Crisis of 1954 -- Quemoy. The protection of Taiwan, Japan and South Korea as well as nations in Southeast Asia is described. Korean War end of hostilities are shown at the 6 minute mark, with the signing of a cease fire in July, 1953. This date marked an expansion of the Fleet's responsibilities to the broader Asian region. Generalissimo Chiang-Kai Shek is shown meeting with a Navy Admiral aboard the USS Wasp at the 7 minute mark, and the evacuation of the Taichung Islands at the 10 minute mark. There's also coverage of the early stage of the Vietnam War with refugees evacuated as part of "Operation Passage to Freedom" at the 8 minute mark. Operation Passage to Freedom was a term used by the United States Navy to describe its transportation in 1954–55 of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam (the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) to South Vietnam (the State of Vietnam, later to become the Republic of Vietnam). The Seventh Fleet is a numbered fleet (a military formation) of the United States Navy. It is headquartered at U.S. Fleet Activities Yokosuka, in Yokosuka, Japan, with some units based in Japan and South Korea. It is part of the United States Pacific Fleet. At present, it is the largest of the forward-deployed U.S. fleets, with 60 to 70 ships,…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: War, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/73492TheSeventhFleet)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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