Sixteen veterans from the 2nd Missile Battalion, 71st Artillery Regiment, U.S. Army gathered at the Air Defense Artillery (ADA) Museum, Fort Sill to see the exhibit of their deployment to Taiwan in 1958-59.
By Wkthomson (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
The deployment, during the second Taiwan Straits Crisis, was important as it was the first expeditionary missile battalion deployed for a combat mission.
A total of 704 men defended Taipei using the Nike Hercules surface-to-air missiles.
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