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Quemoy Artillery Shell Presented To Hoover Archives


Quemoy Artillery Shell Presented To Hoover Archives

Malott Director of the Library & Archives. The artillery shell, which will join the pieces of the Berlin Wall as part of Hoover's unique holdings on the Cold ...

Guns Of August In The Taiwan Strait, 1958 - Hoover Institution

In August 1958, the Chinese Communist military launched a massive shelling blitzkrieg against the Taiwan-held islands of Quemoy and Matsu just a few miles off ...

China Maritime Report No. 42: Invasion Plans: Operation Causeway ...

long-range artillery guns that could shell Japanese positions along the beaches near Kaohsiung. ... Hoover Institution Press,. 2024), pp. 4 ...

Testing Massive Retaliation: Credibility and Crisis Management in ...

American military intelligence did suggest that in light of a present insufficiency of PRC ... 12, 1954, 091 China,. Radford files, JCS records (record group 218) ...

anglo-american tensions over the chinese offshore islands, 1954 ...

In reference to the crises in the area of the Chinese offshore islands of Matsu and. Quemoy, I would argue that the US and Britain put their differences aside ...

Full article: Nuclear Weapons in the Taiwan Strait Part I

This new examination of the crisis, which includes consideration of documentation from PRC and Soviet archives ... presented to the US Congress – a moment ...

American Cryptology during the Cold War, 1945-1989. Book II

similar to that which Congress had given to.Eisenhower during the Quemoy and Matsu crisis in 1955. Bundy drafted a resolution that gave the ...

Nuclear Weapons in the Taiwan Strait

John free-flight artillery rocket,” the “Army's ... The historical record presented here, as described in US, PRC and Soviet archives, supports five.

Into the Missile Age, 1956-1960 - OSD Historical Office

During these years continental defense and the organization and direction of strategic forces presented major issues requiring decisions that had long-term ...

Ready Seapower - Naval History and Heritage Command

artillery forces to shell Jinmen only on odd days, which in effect allowed ... (stanford, Ca: hoover institution press, 1980) by radford and stephen ...

A Chronology of the United States Marine Corps 1947-1964 PCN ...

... mortar shells fell short and exploded at a battalion command post at Camp ... Lemnitzer, Army Chief of Staff, today presented the Marine Corps with its ...

Defending Taiwan: Defense and Deterrence - Nipp.org

upgrade 155mm artillery shells with precision guidance ... Christopher Ford is Distinguished Policy Advisor at MITRE Labs, and a Visiting Fellow at Stanford.

Kinmen - Wikipedia

Due to the extensive shelling by the People's Liberation Army in the 1950s, Kinmen is famous for its artillery shell knives. ... Hoover Institution.

The Lessons of History: The Chinese people's Liberation Army at 75

of military threat presented by the USSR. A central argument was ... “[N]early 450,000 shells” were fired at Kinmen and Mazu during these.

A Dangerous Game Over Taiwan | The New Yorker

Frustrated, the Chinese began bombarding Kinmen, flinging thousands of artillery shells across the water in the hope of forcing its people to ...

CHAPTER 2: THE EISENHOWERS AND FARM #1, 1951–1969

artillery shell, no date. (EISE NHS files, “Gift Books”). Figure 2.119. Mrs ... Gettysburg National Military Park/Eisenhower National Historic. Site Archives.

Inside the Asian Cold War Intrigues: Revisiting the Taiwan Strait crises

and archives for their assistance: the Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University ... stating that 'The battle of artillery in Quemoy ...

Volume VI, 1955-1956 - Joint Chiefs of Staff

sile change identity from antiaircraft artillery round to interceptor aircraft? ... when the military authorities of the alliance presented their estimate of the.

Taiwan and the Origins of Peaceful Reunification, 1978–1988

lobbed millions of artillery shells over Weitou Bay and pummeled Kinmen with bombardment, ... Hoover Institution Press, 2006), 2–4. Page 6 ...

Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office ...

William H. Vatcher, Jr., a research fellow at The Hoover Institution on War ... presented to President Kennedy. Also of note is a brochure from ...