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Initially relatively spared, as WWII in the Pacific reaches a climax, Taiwan is hit hard by advancing Allied forces. POWs in camps across the island await liberation and in modern-day Tainan, a Japanese commander assembles the first kamikaze unit on Formosa.
Cover image: Lt. Yoshinori Yamaguchi's Yokosuka D4Y3 (Type 33 Suisei) begins a suicide dive against the USS Essex on November 25th, 1944. The attack left 15 killed and 44 wounded. (Public Domain Photo)
Below: A plaque sits near the gate of the unkept and mostly forgotten single POW camp in south Taiwan... near Neipu Township in Pingtung County (Photo by Eryk Michael Smith)
Check our very first episode, the story of a very white man who showed up in London in 1703... and claimed to be from Formosa. Or try a foodie episode from Season 3. Or, for those who want some harder-core history, hear the tale of the Lockheed U-2 pilot Wang Hsi-chueh 王錫爵, who became was famous for defecting to the PRC by hijacking China Airlines Flight 334 on May 3, 1986.
