{"id":255,"date":"2008-08-20T22:24:28","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T14:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2008-08-20T22:24:28","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T14:24:28","slug":"50th-anniversary-of-second-taiwan-strait-crisis-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"50th Anniversary of Second Taiwan Strait Crisis (Part 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of October 6, 1958, Communist China&#8217;s Defense Minister Peng Te-huai broadcast the &#8220;Message to the Compatriots in Taiwan&#8221; and announced that he had suspended the bombardment for 7 days.  A statement issued a week later announced the continuation of the cease-fire for 2 more weeks.<\/p>\n<p>During the first week of the cease-fire, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles of the United States concluded that he should make a visit to Taiwan for discussions with Chiang Kai-shek.  The visit was scheduled from October 21 to 23.  However, on the eve of his visit, Communists broke the cease-fire and renewed their shelling of Quemoy.<\/p>\n<p>CIA Detachment C flew U-2 Mission 6023 on October 22, during Dulles&#8217; visit to Taipei.  Shortly after the U-2 had landed, the following message was sent, citing weather problems during the mission:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/1958_5_6023_success.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The weather might have caused some problems as the information gathered for the targets was mostly &#8220;incomplete&#8221;, as indicated in the OXY issued on October 24:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/1958_5_6023_1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/1958_5_6023_2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/1958_5_6023_3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/1958_5_6023_4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Later review of the mission revealed that there had been more problems than just the weather: the U-2 had deviated from the planned course.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/1958_5_6023_deviation.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>But this might not matter anyway.  Communist China announced that PLA forces would thereafter refrain from shelling the offshore islands on even-numbered days.  Although heavy shelling took place on November 3 (an odd-numbered day) as the Communists attempted to affect the election in the US, the crisis was at an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of October 6, 1958, Communist China&#8217;s Defense Minister Peng Te-huai broadcast the &#8220;Message to the Compatriots in Taiwan&#8221; and announced that he had suspended the bombardment for 7 days&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-u-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}