Word: quemoy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most important cold-war textbook lesson of the year is a step-by-step analysis of last autumn's Quemoy crisis prepared by U.S. military and diplomatic agencies in recent weeks. Its gist...
...Battle of Quemoy 1958 began early last August, when Chinese Nationalist reconnaissance pilots flying RF-84 jets over the Formosa Strait spotted Communist MIGs on two previously unoccupied airfields at Cheng-hai and Lien-cheng facing Formosa and the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. The evaluation: Red China, locked up inside its borders since the Formosa Strait crisis of 1954-55, was once more on the move in Asia. The confirmation: Red China's air force opened up a careful reconnaissance of Quemoy...
After Mao Tse-tung wound up his secret talks with Khrushchev in Peking, Radio Peking formally proclaimed that Quemoy-Matsu would be assaulted as a prelude to an attack against Formosa. U.S. and Chinese Nationalist intelligence officers measured known strengths. Red China's army numbered a vast 2,500,000 men-200,000 in action stations facing the Formosa Strait-and its air force of 400 tactical bombers and 1,600 jet fighters was backed up by the 2,300 planes of the U.S.S.R.'s Far East command. The Chinese Nationalists could muster only 400,000 troops-including...
...Communists fired 100 shells at Quemoy, overflew Quemoy with MIG-17 jet fighters, dropped no bombs. On Aug. 23 the Communists laid down a tremendous artillery bombardment of 50,000 rounds. On Aug. 24 the Communists fired 40,000 rounds, went into a daily average of 10,000 rounds per day for five days, again held back airpower. On Aug. 29 the Communists kicked off their propaganda onslaught by warning the free world that landing is imminent," warned the Quemoy garrison "to withdraw." Then, two days later, the Communists made a big-and unanticipated-move to scare...
...Washington decided to stand firm at Quemoy. The Joint Chiefs sent a Tactical Air Command task force of scores of medium jet bombers and supersonic jet interceptors to Formosa, sent carriers Essex and Midway to reinforce the four carriers in the Seventh Fleet, ordered the Seventh Fleet to escort Chinese Nationalist supply convoys to within three miles of Quemoy. A week later the President, in a speech from the White House, capped the U.S. effort: "A Western Pacific Munich would not buy us peace. There is not going to be any appeasement...