A Visit to the Black Bat Memorial Hall

It's been quite awhile since my first visit to the Black Bat Memorial Hall in Hsinchu.

But before we visit, let's look back on how that visit came about.

It was 20 November 2010, friends, Gene, Benny and I came together in Hsinchu, believing we would soon enter the gates at Hsinchu AFB, to visit their Open House.

Read about how things went down on that day (talked about inside the story below)
 and how, some 3 weeks later,
we finally entered the gate of Hsinchu AFB to visit the Open House displays.

Double Click on link below,  Bold colored line below,  
to read story and view photos of our Open House visit.. 

 https://taipeiairstation.blogspot.com/search?q=hsinchu+open+house

The November visit turned out to be interesting in itself.

Then, come back to this page and have a look at the Black Cat Memorial Hall photos.

The photos of the Memorial Hall and outside area were taken on 11 December 2010, after we concluded our visit at the Hsinchu AFB Open House, mid afternoon.

 Memorial Hall from lawn area of the park.
Street runs just to the right side of this photo.

Dong Da Park signage siting on right,  beside palms.




The Memorial Hall Building was constructed using same footprint as the BOT Family Housing area homes in Hsinchu, although not as large a footprint, but close to same size when adding basement.

The building was constructed with a basement, something the Family Housing homes  
did not have.  The basement floor space doubled the available floor display and office areas for the Memorial Hall..

Here is one of the BOT Hsinchu family homes, in the early days of MAAG.
This was the home of LTC Rayle, US Army, MAAG Taiwan. 

The Memorial Hall sits inside the Dong Da Park.

Side view stairway to basement area of the building.
Street is just to my back in this photo.

Walking across grass toward main door.

  "Street View" photo from Google Earth 8 May 2020.

 This photo is not the best quality.

Unfortunately, the front door is just to the my back when I took this photo, so reflection of light from the doorway floods the plexiglass covering the diagram.

Photo - hard to get clean photo, spotlight was

flooding the photo from above my head.

 Map depicting some of the missions the men of the Black Bat Squadron flew...

Inside view of some of the displays.

Gene leaving the Memorial Hall after our visit, don't remember what he purchased.

I must have been complaining to him, asking what happened, you took so 

long to check-out...

Guaranteed, that's why he's smiling.

But I wasn't mad, just laughing.

We got back in the car and drove out to the High Speed Rail Station.

I purchased a ticket and caught the next train back to Taipei.

It was a full day, lots to see at the base, and an enjoyable visit to the 

Black Bat Memorial Hall.