Taipei Air Station has some photos of ROCAF C-119, taken in 1958 while they were at Tainan AFB. These photos are unique in that they were taken shortly after these C-119 had…
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General Hsichun Hua, ROCAF (Ret.)
Via Col. Tom Wang One day in 1997, when my website (then called Military Aviation of ROC and hosted on my school’s server) had been up and running for about two years,…
Penetrated by ChiCom?
Liberty Times reported on Dec 20 that Chinese agents in Taiwan might have been involved in pre-alerting the Chinese military of impending reconnaissance missions by reconnaissance-pod carrying ROCAF F-16. The paper said…
LIFE Magazine Photos: P-51 and P-47 Being Prepared for ROCAF
Click on these photos to go to the original Google pages with high-resolution images. It seems that these P-51 and P-47 were just taken out of storage before they would be repaired…
Still More Photos of P-51 (and C-46) from LIFE Magazine
Is that a DC-4 on the left? Note the T-6 on the right.
Photos of ROCAF P-51 from LIFE Magazine
Both The Only Redhead in Taiwan and David on Formosa have posts with photos of Taiwan from LIFE magazine hosted by Google. These photos of P-51 (and C-46 in one photo) are…
Last Blackcat Commander
Last Sunday I went to see Col. Tom Wang (王濤), who served as the last commander of the 35th Squadron. I was privileged to be shown his collection of plaques. I would…
黑貓中隊座談會影像紀實
蔡盛雄教官在會場上將他的橘色飛行服捐給桃園縣文化局 由左至右：蔡盛雄教官、小弟本人、沈宗李教官 由左至右：小弟本人、沈宗李教官、傅鏡平先生 王濤教官因故無法親自出席，由龐耀祖教官帶來這張英姿勃發的照片在會場放映 小弟當天所用的投影片在此，歡迎下載。
Prelude to Project TACKLE (III)
Following the approval for the proposal for joint US-ROC U-2 operations, the project got into full swing, as can be seen in the above schedule dated October 3, 1960. Here “B” refers…
Prelude to Project TACKLE (II)
The year of 1960 proved to be a busy year for people at CIA’s DPD as they worked hard to establish a U-2 detachment in Taiwan. In his memoir, Jude Pao, former…