{"id":28,"date":"2006-03-18T20:18:46","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T12:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2006-03-18T20:18:46","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T12:18:46","slug":"when-was-the-first-china-overflight-by-u-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"When Was the First China Overflight by U-2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people would think it took place on January 13, 1962, when CHEN, Huai-Shen, photographed the Shuan Cheng Tzu missile base.\u00a0 A few may argue it happened during the 1958 Taiwan Strait crisis.\u00a0 Unfortunately, both answers are not correct.<\/p>\n<p>Based on what I have found in CIA declassified documents so far, the first documented overflight of China by a U-2 was on August 5, 1957.\u00a0 It was an <em>Operation Soft Touch<\/em> mission, originating from Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Surprised?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mission Coverage Summary: First China overflight by U-2\" alt=\"Mission Coverage Summary: First China overflight by U-2\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/first_china_overflight.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people would think it took place on January 13, 1962, when CHEN, Huai-Shen, photographed the Shuan Cheng Tzu missile base.\u00a0 A few may argue it happened during the 1958 Taiwan Strait&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","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=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}