Shulinkou Air Station – Part 3: Taiwan and the Gulf of Tonkin – S5-E39

We end our Shulinkou trilogy by tying together the surprisingly
interconnected Taiwan–U.S.–Vietnam story. It’s July 1964, and two
U.S. Navy destroyers are in Taiwan preparing for an
intelligence-gathering mission off the coast of North Vietnam.
Shulinkou Air Station provided intel, specialized equipment, and
trained personnel for the USS Maddox and
USS Turner Joy – ships about to play starring roles in
the controversial incident that helped draw the United States
fully into the Vietnam War.





Amid this geopolitical drama, we follow the story of a young Navy
intelligence specialist, Joe Miller. A forbidden romance costs
him his posting at Shulinkou. But his reassignment to the
aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga will give him a
front-row seat to the Tonkin crisis, and change the course of his
life.








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