I was not quite a year old at the time.
Where did the US take all of the refugees? The article I read didn’t say?
Formosa/Taiwan some immigrated to the US.
This link is from someone aboard an LST and was involved.
The music is bad.. hit mute..info interesting.
http://lst1159tomgreencounty.com/p1tachen.html
Communista had been shelling and bombing the Islands and more impostant ones..John Foster Dulles threatened nuclear strike on the mainland...As I said..It was a tense time.