The former site of a Japanese military airfield built late in the war, likely in 1944. Today only faint traces remain in the form of three stone rollers displayed in the parking lot of Sanfu Temple (三福宮). These rollers were used to flatten the runway during construction and in the event of damage from an air raid. The initial test landings failed and the airfield was abandoned before it entered into surface. In the post-war era the land was returned to the farmers it had been expropriated from and it gradually disappeared into history. Also known as Sankaidan Airfield (金包里飛行場) in some sources.
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- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- World War 2 History in Taiwan (台灣第二次世界大戰歷史)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.