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The bombing of Taihoku, capital of Japanese Taiwan

Post author By Flying Dutchman
Post date May 31, 2020
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The Japanese Governor General’s Office, now the Presidential Palace, was heavily damaged in 1945.

For decades, the air raid on then Japanese-controlled Taipei in May 1945 was an ignored chapter of World War II in Asia.

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Using junks to conquer an island: the strange case of Hainan in 1950

Post author By Flying Dutchman
Post date May 1, 2020
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Hainan is marked in red. The leaf-shaped island to the east is Taiwan.

The conquest of the Chinese island of Hainan by Mao’s communists in the spring of 1950 saw the successful use of junks against war ships.

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