Petite plongée dans le passé aujourd’hui. Suite au début de la guerre de Corée en 1950 et la menace d’expansion communiste en Asie, des accords de défenses entre Taiwan et les USA, ayant pour effets le stationnement sur l’île de troupes américaines, sont signés. Et parmi ces conseillers et militaires US à débarquer, on trouve un certain Tom Jones, qui séjournera à Taipei entre 1957 et 1958. De son passage, le soldat en tirera des centaines de clichés, instantanés ou posés, du Taiwan d’alors, des champs aux temples en passant par ses habitants. On peut ainsi y découvrir, par exemple, un Taipei bien loin de celui d’aujourd’hui, ou encore de nombreux lieux “vierges”, comme le Sun Moon Lake. Ayant mis ses phots sur un compte Picassa, mélangées à certaines prises au Japon et à Hawaii tout aussi intéressantes, elles font le bonheur des taiwanais qui sont nombreux à venir consulter cette galerie laissant au passage de nombreux messages de remerciements à destination de Tom Jones. À voir sans modération donc.
Crédit photos : Tom Jones.
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Outside wall of Dutch fort
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Cemetery in Tainan
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Shrine to early Dutch
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Base of Chihkan Tower
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Memorial tablets with names of early Dutch
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Tropic of Cancer near Chiayi
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Square in Chiayi
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Mountain near Chiayi
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Looking toward Chiayi
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Guan Tze Lin hot springs resort
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Burning water
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Looking toward Chiayi & west coast
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Small pagoda – Guan shi yin
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Guard at temple
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Temple gate
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Small pagoda
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Offering « kits » – incense, fire crackers, « money »
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Temple
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Chung Hua
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Sun Moon Lake
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Hotel garden – Sun Moon Lake
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Sun Moon Lake
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Temple at Sun Moon Lake
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Taiwanese Tsou aboriginal festive dress
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Aboriginal village
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John Calvert abord his yacht « Thespian »
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Joe Iverson & John Calvert abord the Thespian
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John Calvert giving chimp Jimmy a bath enroute to Japan
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USAF C-47 from Stars & Stripes circling us near Japan
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Japanese coast guard cutter towing the Thespian
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Press plane circling
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Approaching Fukuoka, Japan
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Japanese fishing boat hired by newsmen
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Fishing boat
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Newsmen trailing the Thespian
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Japanese customs & newsmen
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Newmori Hotel gardens – Tokyo
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Back near Taipei
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Road to Linkou
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Linkou
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Last look at Taiwan
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Phillipines near Clark AFB
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Guam Airport
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Guam
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Our Super Constellation ride to the USA
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Honolulu, Hawaii
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Honolulu Airport
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Diamond Head from Honolulu Airport
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Oakland Army Terminal
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Wake Island
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Our DC-6B
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Wake Island
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Tokyo
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Toyko Imperial Palace Moat
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Imperial Palace grounds, Tokyo
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Intrepid Tourist
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Taiwan near Taipei
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Taipei’s Chungshan Road North & Grass Mountain
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Taipei International Airport (now Songshan Airport)
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Home on Grass Mountain
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Hot sulphur springs on Grass Mountain
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Dick Vanaugelen & monkey friend
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Hostel 3 on Grass Mountain (Yangmingshan)
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Road up Grass Mountain
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Grass Mountain Hostel in middle of picture
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View down valley toward Taipei
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Road down Grass Mountain
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Rice paddies on Grass Mountain
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Keelung River near Taipei
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Taipei
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Northeast Taipei
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Don Ranck in pedicab
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Back of apartments in Taipei
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School children at front of apartments
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What flavor did you say you wanted?
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PSD Compound
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USCD
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New Navy Commisary Under Construction
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People Mover
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NCO Club Pool
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NCO Club Pool
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Near Taipei
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Keelung River
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Tamsui River
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Ships abandoned on Tsamsui River after flight from mainland
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Banana salesman with scale
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Green Lake
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Green Lake (Bitan Lake)
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Green Lake
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Green Lake
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Green Lake boatman
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Coal mine at Green Lake
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Sign on left: « Happy Chinese New Year. Don’t forget our suffering mainland compatriot. » (Village street near Temple of 1,000 Steps)
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Chih Nan Temple (Temple of 1,000 Steps)
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Offering fire
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Old lady with bound feet
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Termple of 1,000 Steps from back
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Fountain at Temple of 1,000 Steps
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Funeral Procession in Taipei
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Casket & mourners
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Yehliu on the coastline near Keelung
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Looking south toward Keelung
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North of Keelung
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Mountain near northern tip of Taiwan
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Boxwork Rock on Northeast coast of Taiwan
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Northeast coast
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Mountains around Taipei
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Road between Yangminshan & Beitou
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Hot springs near Beitou
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Mountains near Beitou
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Near Taipei
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Near Taipei
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Tamsui harbor
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Tamsui River bridge near Taipei
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Main highway bridge heading west from Taipei across the Tamsui River
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Chinese driver with 3/4 Ton – our transportation to the transmitter site
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Inside Transmitter Site
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Inside power building with old 60 KW diesel generators
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AN/GRC-26 radio trucks with PE-95 generator trailers
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Rice paddies & antennas
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Planting rice outside transmitter building
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Sunset on new rice plantings
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Growing
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Still growing
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Almost ready to harvest
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Gen. Edwin O Patrick at docks in Keelung
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Chinese Navy LST containing AN/GRC-26 radio truck for Matsu
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Matsu from the sea
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Beached on Matsu for unloading
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Matsu roads
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Typical fortified hillside on Matsu
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Chinese dugouts in hillside
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MAAG motor pool
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Matsu BOQ
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Scannel hard at work
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Inside Radio Truck
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Navy motor mech. Ed Sharp and his generators
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Trying to repair a Kleinschmidt teletype
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Classified materials disposl
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Chinese engineers digging emplacement for new radio truck
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Chinese army laundry & baithing facility
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Scenes about Matsu
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China mainland from Matsu
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MAAG avaition rescue boat for emergency evacuation
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Chinese mainland from Matsu
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Mainland again
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Chinese intrepretors vs advisory team volleyball
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Getting ready for a day at the beach
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M/Sgt Hardwick, Ed Sharp, Tom Jones
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EM housing on Matsu
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PBY leaving Matsu for Taipei
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Ruins of old Temple NE of Taipei
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Mountain shrine
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Mouth of Tamsui River
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Tamsui River
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Beitou
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Taipei in the distance
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Carving replacement column
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Finished detail
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Preparing for scooter trip clockwise around island of Taiwan
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Shamao Mountain near Taipei
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Mountains around Taipei
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Pause on road from Taipei to Ilan
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Along road from Taipei to Ilan
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Scenes along road to Ilan
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Approaching east coast of Taiwan
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Lanyan Plain & Pacific Ocean in the distance
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Lanyang (coastal) plain near Ilan
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Stop for repairs near Yilan
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School children in Sua-ao
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Coast between fishing village and Sua-ao
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Fishing village
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Nanfang Ao
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Fishermen near start of one way road
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View from one way road
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Views of one way Suahua highway
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Ping-Lin Railroad station at south end of one way east coast road
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Dry wash out of mountains on east coast
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Station along railroad
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Loading sugar cane
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Another station
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River coming out of the mountains
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Taimali township south of Taitung
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South of Kaohsiung
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Kaohsiung
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Street cleaner in Kaohsiung
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Park in Tainan
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Hotel in Tainan
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Circus in Tainan
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Old Dutch fort and Japanese pillbox
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Guns from fort in Tainan
These are fantastic photos. I am particularly interested in those of John Calvert and his yacht ‘Thespian’. I’m wondering if anyone can put me in touch with the photographer, Tom Jones.
I have no way to contact him. Sorry.
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