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3 unusual facts about Second Taiwan Strait Crisis


312th Tactical Fighter Wing

As part of Eighteenth AF, the 312th furnished units for TAC composite air strike forces in the Far East during 1957 and 1958, deploying F-100s and crews to Taiwan during the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis.

Japanese destroyer Yukikaze

During her time in service, she sank one People's Liberation Army Navy corvette and lightly damaged another during 1957, prior to the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis.

Second Taiwan Strait Crisis

Soon, the U.S.S.R. dispatched its foreign minister, Andrei Gromyko, to the Chinese capital (Peking) to discuss the actions of the P.L.A. and the Red Chinese Air Force, with advice of caution to the Red Chinese.



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