Word: tachen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Everything seems to be in fine shape," said Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Felix Stump. "When the bell rings, we will be ready to go." This week the bell rang for the Chinese Nationalists to evacuate the Tachen Islands with the help of the U.S. Seventh Fleet...
...shopping and social events. While the admirals shopped and sipped, the Chinese Communists were shooting their way to within hailing distance of the Seventh Fleet. Boldly, the Reds crushed all Nationalist Chinese opposition on Yikiang Islet, 250 miles northwest of Formosa, then poised for an attack on the Tachen Islands eight miles closer to Formosa (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...program (see below), but he left in a slip of the tongue which had the President saying Indonesia when he meant Indo-China. More reporters than usual wore television-blue shirts and eager looks, but the President maintained his customary earnest demeanor as he answered questions ranging from the Tachen crisis in Asia to how he likes his job (its blessings are "not wholly unmixed...
Washington intelligence estimated the attacking force at regimental strength (which would be 2,500 on the Chinese scale). They heavily outnumbered and soon overwhelmed the Nationalists. At dusk, the big Nationalist garrison on Upper Tachen, eight miles away, could still hear machine-gun fire. But later in the night silence fell on Yikiang. Next day the triumphant Reds sent 100 planes to bomb the Tachens-one of the largest raids of the island...
Also, Admiral Felix Stump, U.S. Navy commander in chief in the Pacific, turned up in Taipei, having inspected the Nationalist fleet and Nationalist-held Tachen Island. Asked if the Seventh Fleet's role would be purely defensive, the admiral said: "No commander likes to sit back and wait. Sometimes you have to go out and start shooting...