US Taiwan Defense Command

A couple of months ago I mention that Kent Mathieu (Taipei Air Station blog and website) has been posting videos to YouTube of his walks aro...

Scott has posted several great photos of the former Yangmingshan American military C-Area housing units.  Click HERE to view the images.

Old friend Marc told me about this photo that may have been taken sometime during the 1950s. I don't remember this sign at all when I...

Today I'm wrapping up the history of U.S. military assistance to Taiwan during the period 1950-1959.  As I mentioned earlier, the source...

Today I'm continuing with the history of the U.S. Military Advisory Group (MAAG) and the U.S. Taiwan Defense Command (USTDC) as describe...

I recently found a report titled "Selected Aspects of U.S. Military Assistance."  As the title suggests, it was an overview of U.S...

Bill Amborn was at TDC during 1963-64 and provided this account of Typhoon Gloria: I was assigned to TDC from the States and arrived as a PF...

LTC Scott Ellinger annotated the 1969 satellite image that I posted a couple of days ago to show the locations of the housing areas, the US ...

The author of the TaiwanAirPower.org website sent me a 1969 American CORONA satellite image of the Yangmingshan area that may be helpful f...

I've been corresponding with Tom Kirkland, retired Air Force tech sergeant, who was in Taipei during 1955-56.  He talked about the ...