{"id":848,"date":"2010-02-14T20:19:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T12:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=848"},"modified":"2010-02-20T11:31:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T03:31:36","slug":"the-six-missions-flown-by-charlie-wu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"The Six Missions Flown by Charlie Wu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised that Charlie Wu&#8217;s (\u5433\u8f09\u7199) family knew very little about the accident that killed him until I sent the declassified accident investigation report to Charlie&#8217;s younger brother Thomas Wu (\u5433\u8f09\u5947), a retired ROCAF general and former vice intelligence chief.  So I guess this post marks the first time that (some) details about the six U-2 missions flown by Charlie Wu are revealed.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>C065C, Feb 24, 1965: This mission covered a good part of Yunan Province in southwest China.\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/wu_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<li>C115C, Mar 14, 1965: This mission also covered Yunan Province.  A Chinese MiG attempted to shoot down Wu&#8217;s U-2 with missiles but failed.\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/wu_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On this mission, Wu photographed the MiGs parked at Kunming Airfield.  It was not known whether the MiG attempting to shoot him down was launched from here.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/wu_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com.tw\/?ie=UTF8&amp;ll=25.005156,102.75075&amp;spn=0.007254,0.021887&amp;t=h&amp;z=16&amp;brcurrent=3,0x0:0x0,1&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com.tw\/?ie=UTF8&amp;ll=25.005156,102.75075&amp;spn=0.007254,0.021887&amp;t=h&amp;z=16&amp;brcurrent=3,0x0:0x0,1&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">\u6aa2\u8996\u8f03\u5927\u7684\u5730\u5716<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<li>C245C, Apr 30, 1965: This mission covered the coast along Zhejiang and Fujian Provinces.\n<p>This photo of Chou Shan (\u821f\u5c71) Naval Base was taken on C245C:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/wu_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chou Shan area forty years later:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com.tw\/?ie=UTF8&amp;ll=29.999321,122.084455&amp;spn=0.027726,0.087547&amp;t=h&amp;z=14&amp;brcurrent=3,0x0:0x0,1&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com.tw\/?ie=UTF8&amp;ll=29.999321,122.084455&amp;spn=0.027726,0.087547&amp;t=h&amp;z=14&amp;brcurrent=3,0x0:0x0,1&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">\u6aa2\u8996\u8f03\u5927\u7684\u5730\u5716<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<li>C325C, May 28, 1965: This mission flew along the coasts of Guangdong and Fujian Provinces.\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/wu_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<li>C455C, Aug 24, 1965: This mission covered Guangdong Province.\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/wu_06.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<li>C555C, Oct 19, 1965: This mission covered Guangdong Province and Haina Island.\n<\/ol>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/wu_07.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised that Charlie Wu&#8217;s (\u5433\u8f09\u7199) family knew very little about the accident that killed him until I sent the declassified accident investigation report to Charlie&#8217;s younger brother Thomas Wu (\u5433\u8f09\u5947),&#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":[42,113,44,41,236,114,43],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-35th-sq","category-history","category-u-2","tag-35th","tag-charlie-wu","tag-tackle","tag-u2","tag-236","tag-114","tag-blackcat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","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=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}