Shulinkou Air Station – Part 2 – S5-E38
We continue the story of the Shulinkou Air Station and the American military in the early 1960s. We tackle Taiwan’s infamous gravel-truck killers (urban legend or fact?), get slapped by Typhoon Gloria, and have our duck-hunting excursion interrupted by the Generalissimo’s latest China invasion plans. And we follow the trail of controversial crimes and court verdicts which led to the ROC and U.S. finally signing a Status of Forces Agreement. On a lighter note, we also take time out for some catered Mongolian barbecue.
For this second episode, we again used the excellent Shulinkou Air Station Taiwan website, which is run by men who served there between 1955 and 1977.
And again, we used material from Confessions of a Code Breaker: Tales From Decrypt (2004), an autobiography written by Lieutenant Commander Norman Klar, who was in charge of the Navy Security Group at Shulinkou and had additional intelligence duties. He served in Taiwan from June 1963 to September 1965.
Two other books we used were:
Admiral Jerauld Wright: Warrior Among Diplomats by David M Key (2001)
Wright was the U.S. ambassador here 1963-65.
American Justice in Taiwan: The 1957 Riots and Cold War Foreign Policy (2016) by Stephen G. Craft
And as promised, we provide a picture of Taiwan's unfortunately named fighter jet, the F-CK-1 Ching-Kuo, commonly known as the Indigenous Defense Fighter.
Source: O8447, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
We continue the story of the Shulinkou Air Station and the American military in the early 1960s. We tackle Taiwan’s infamous gravel-truck killers (urban legend or fact?), get slapped by Typhoon Gloria, and have our duck-hunting excursion interrupted by the Generalissimo’s latest China invasion plans.
And we follow the trail of controversial crimes and court verdicts which led to the ROC and U.S. finally signing a Status of Forces Agreement.
On a lighter note, we also take time out for some catered Mongolian barbecue.
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