Black Bat Squadron

.

Around 140 Black Bat crew members went down with their planes. A few were captured after being shot down and later released in Hong Kong.

As to "5 of the squadron's aircraft were shot down by PRC air defenses and 3 ROCAF pilots were killed," this refers to members of another top-secret squadron-- The Black Cat Squadron. This squadron flew U2 high altitude reconnaissance plane provided by the CIA. Their flight provided valuable intelligence deep inside Mainland China, specifically China's Automic bomb development. The squadron was disbanded in 1979 after America established relationship with Mainland China and severed ties with ROC.-- () 16:21, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Director Ting Wen-chin (Dīng Wénjìng 丁雯靜) made a documentary about them entitled The Secret Hidden in the Sky of Taiwan (Táiwān tiānkōng de mìmi 台灣天空的祕密).

External links

* [http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2007/07/10/2003368999 Taipei Times article, 10 July, 2007]

* [http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-08-04-taiwanpilots_N.htm USA Today article, 4 August, 2007]
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89377936 NPR Audio Story, 4 April, 2008]