- Linkou (林口) Nike-Hercules/HAWK site (+25° 3′ 25.30″, +121° 20′ 34.67″)
Former B Battery of the 2nd Missile Battalion, 71st Artillery, U.S. Army. When this image was taken in 1966, the 2nd Missile Battalion had already been deactivated and returned to the US.
The missiles are visible in this 1969 image:
The site was later converted into a HAWK site. But now it is abandoned:
- Linkou (林口) unidentified site (+25° 1′ 56.56″, +121° 20′ 25.71″)
There were three what appeared to be empty launcher revetments about 2.6 km (1.7 miles) to the south of the Battery B site. According to 2nd Missile Battalion 71st Artillery (Taiwan) Association, there used to be B and C Batteries in Linkou. Could this site previously belong to C Battery?:
It was still empty in the 1969 image:
ROC Army later built its Missile Service Command (飛彈勤務處) on this site, where I served for two years in the late 1980s. It has since downgraded to the depot level.
- Taishan (泰山) Missile Command Headquarters (+25° 2′ 10.42″, +121° 25′ 16.47″)
When the 2nd Missile Battalion, 71st Artillery, U.S. Army, was in Taiwan, the Battalion Headquarters was based here. This is what it looked like in 1966:
Almost the same in 1969:
The compound has not changed much in the past forty years:
Google Earth’s Street View gives us this nice shot:
