{"id":1025,"date":"2010-05-01T10:27:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T02:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2010-05-01T17:26:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T09:26:14","slug":"corona-satellite-images-of-taiwan-sam-sites-corona%e7%9c%bc%e4%b8%ad%e7%9a%84%e5%8f%b0%e7%81%a3%e9%98%b2%e7%a9%ba%e9%a3%9b%e5%bd%88%e9%99%a3%e5%9c%b0-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"CORONA Satellite Images of Taiwan SAM Sites (CORONA\u773c\u4e2d\u7684\u53f0\u7063\u9632\u7a7a\u98db\u5f48\u9663\u5730) Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><b>Linkou (\u6797\u53e3) Nike-Hercules\/HAWK site (+25\u00b0 3\u2032 25.30\u2033, +121\u00b0 20\u2032 34.67\u2033)<\/b>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/linkou_1966.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The missiles are visible in this 1969 image:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/linkou_1969.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The site was later converted into a HAWK site.  But now it is abandoned:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/linkou_2006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<li><b>Linkou (\u6797\u53e3) unidentified site (+25\u00b0 1&#8242; 56.56&#8243;, +121\u00b0 20&#8242; 25.71&#8243;)<\/b>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2-71adataiwan.com\/\" target=_blank>2nd Missile Battalion 71st Artillery (Taiwan) Association<\/a>, there used to be B and C Batteries in Linkou.  Could this site previously belong to C Battery?:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/linkou2_1966.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was still empty in the 1969 image:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/linkou2_1969.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ROC Army later built its Missile Service Command (\u98db\u5f48\u52e4\u52d9\u8655)  on this site, where I served for two years in the late 1980s.  It has since downgraded to the depot level.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/linkou2_2006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<li><b>Taishan (\u6cf0\u5c71) Missile Command Headquarters (+25\u00b0 2&#8242; 10.42&#8243;, +121\u00b0 25&#8242; 16.47&#8243;)<\/b>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/taishan_1966.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Almost the same in 1969:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/taishan_1969.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The compound has not changed much in the past forty years:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/taishan_2006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Google Earth&#8217;s Street View gives us this nice shot:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/taishan_street.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linkou (\u6797\u53e3) Nike-Hercules\/HAWK site (+25\u00b0 3\u2032 25.30\u2033, +121\u00b0 20\u2032 34.67\u2033) Former B Battery of the 2nd Missile Battalion, 71st Artillery, U.S. Army. When this image was taken in 1966, the 2nd Missile&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,203],"tags":[139,48,276,273,274,275],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-satellite-imagery","tag-corona","tag-google","tag-hawk","tag-kh-4a","tag-kh-4b","tag-nike-hercules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}