Postal Yikiangshan Islands Wade–Giles I-chiang-shan Tao Traditional Chinese 一江山島 | Hanyu Pinyin Province Zhejiang Simplified Chinese 一江山岛 | |
The Yijiangshan Islands (simplified Chinese: 一江山岛; traditional Chinese: 一江山島; pinyin: Yījiāngshān Dǎo) are two small islands eight miles from the Tachen group, located between Shanghai and Keelung in the Taiwan Strait.
Map of Yijiangshan Island, Jiaojiang, Taizhou, China
During the first Taiwan Strait crisis it was captured on January 20, 1955 (a few days earlier?) by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) from Republic of China (ROC) Nationalist forces in the Battle of Yijiangshan even as the U.S. Seventh Fleet was patrolling nearby.
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