{"id":26,"date":"2006-03-17T21:04:57","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T13:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2009-05-24T10:43:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T02:43:18","slug":"list-of-u-2-missions-between-two-famous-shootdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"List of U-2 Missions between Two Famous Shootdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I have been working on an article about ROCAF U-2 pilot CHEN, Huai-shen, who was shot down by PLA on September 9, 1962.\u00a0 In doing this, I have researched declassified CIA documents, which were sent to me by Joseph Donoghue.\u00a0 Joe has spent countless hours in NARA searching for and copying released documents related to the U-2 program in the past few years.\u00a0 After each trip to DC, he scanned the papers and archived the files.\u00a0 Without his generosity, I would not have been able to write this article.<\/p>\n<p>If I tried to print out all the documents, they would be a few feet tall.\u00a0 But unfortunately not many people are able to make a visit to NARA.\u00a0 So I am thinking of posting some of the documents on the web so that people who are interesed will be able to read them.<\/p>\n<p>The following document, made shortly after Chen&#8217;s shootdown, lists all the U-2 missions flown after Gary Powers&#8217; famous May 1 shootdown up to September 17, 1962.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"U-2 mission list, p1\" alt=\"U-2 mission list, p1\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/u2_missions_p1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"U-2 mission list, p2\" alt=\"U-2 mission list, p2\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/u2_missions_p2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"U-2 mission list, p3\" alt=\"U-2 mission list, p3\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/u2_missions_p3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I have been working on an article about ROCAF U-2 pilot CHEN, Huai-shen, who was shot down by PLA on September 9, 1962.\u00a0 In doing this, I have researched declassified CIA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6,5],"tags":[42,99,101,44,41,43],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-35th-sq","category-history","category-u-2","tag-35th","tag-cia","tag-gary-powers","tag-tackle","tag-u2","tag-blackcat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}