Tachen
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The Dachen Islands or Tachen Islands (Simplified Chinese: 大陈群岛; Traditional Chinese: 大陳群島; pinyin: Dàchén Qúndǎo) is a group of islands off the coast of Zhejiang, the People's Republic of China.
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[edit] History
[edit] ROC evacuation
The Tachen Islands was controlled by the Republic of China (the government of which was based in Taiwan since 1949) until an evacuation by the American Navy in February 1955 during the First Taiwan Strait Crisis. The U.S. Seventh Fleet used 132 boats and 400 aircraft to move 14,500 civilians, 10,000 Republic of China servicemen. and 4,000 guerrilla fighters, along with 40,000 tons of military equipment and supplies from the island. Three days after the evacuation, the islands were taken by the People's Liberation Army. Chiang Kai-shek grudgingly allowed the island to fall to the Communists so that the other offshore island groups, Kinmen and Matsu, could be successfully defended with American help.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- BBC - 1955: US evacuates Pacific islands
- Tachen Islands Evacuation History
- Pictures of the evacuation
- Bank notes and brief history of Tachen between 1949 and 1955 (in Traditional Chinese)
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