Dachen Islands information

The Dachen Islands, Tachen Islands or Tachens are a group of islands off the coast of Taizhou, Zhejiang, China, in the East China Sea. They are administered...

coast from the Dachen Islands. Holding the two Yijiangshan islands, which were closer to the coast, contributed to the defense of the Dachens. The ROC regarded...

The Yijiangshan Islands are two small islands 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) from the Dachen Islands, located off the coast of Taizhou, Zhejiang, in the East China...

people and military equipment and supplies from the Dachen Islands, Pishan Island and Yushan Island to Taiwan. Although the Chinese Communist Party had...

targeted Dachen Archipelago when they attacked Yijiangshan Islands, but the PLA were incapable of simultaneously taking both. When the PLA bombed Dachen Archipelago...

on the ROC-held island of Kinmen (Quemoy) in September 1954. Shelling was subsequently extended to the Matsu and Tachen (Dachen) islands. In response, the...

of Hainan, parts of Zhejiang (Chekiang)—specifically the Dachen Islands and Yijiangshan Islands—and portions of Tibet, Qinghai, Xinjiang and Yunnan. The...

communists in the Chinese Civil War. She aided in the defense of the Dachen Islands and Taiwan but largely shifted away from military operations after turning...

Republic of China (having itself retreated to Taiwan) evacuated the Dachen Islands in the face of the encroaching Communists. Many who evacuated to Taiwan...

shelling Quemoy and threatened to take the Dachen Islands. On 20 January 1955, the PLA took nearby Yijiangshan Island, with the entire ROC garrison of 720 troops...

Kinmen. The PRC captured the Yijiangshan Islands on 19 January 1955, leading to the ROC abandoning the Dachen Islands the following month. On 24 January 1955...

Taiwan with the retreating KMT, particularly former residents of the Dachen Islands who had been evacuated in 1955. Traditionally, Taiwanese food has been...

escort ROCS Tai Ping is sunk by four Chinese torpedo boats off the Dachen Islands. 1955 19 September – Bombardment of Mar del Plata – Rebelling Argentine...

Republic of China government based in Taiwan continued to control the Dachen Islands off the coast of Zhejiang until 1955, even establishing a rival Zhejiang...

USS Estes, to the Dachen Islands and became involved in the First Taiwan Strait Crisis. A few days before the invasion of the islands by the People’s Liberation...

coastal islands held by Nationalist troops, PRC forces captured the Yijiangshan Islands. In February, they captured the Dachen Islands, the Yushan Islands, and...

First Taiwan Strait Crisis, with the PLA capturing the Yijiangshan and Dachen islands. As commander of the artillery, he employed the former Qing Dynasty...