A stone stele in the hills of Shimen featuring an inscription topped by an anchor commemorating the crash of a Japanese naval aircraft on November 26th, 1937. It was one of two Kanoya Naval Air Group (鹿屋海軍航空隊) bombers that struck high ground when returning from an aborted raid out of Taichū Airfield (臺中飛行場). Seven airmen died here, and the companion wreck in the mountains of Gongliao is marked by the Naval Air Corps Memorial. Japanese authorities raised the marker on the first anniversary in 1938. Forgotten after the war, which spared it from deliberate destruction, the stele was rediscovered in 1999 and restored, with a short boardwalk trail built to the site.
Map
Links
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
Themes
- 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)
Connections
- Naval Air Corps Memorial (海軍航空隊士殉職之地碑)
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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.