Qualla: Wude Airfield https://qualla.com/wude-airfield en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Wude Airfield https://qualla.com/wude-airfield Wude Airfield: Introduction https://qualla.com/wude-airfield/ Nobody talks about Zhumushui anymore. Locals in Penghu County pass the old military camp at Wude without knowing that beneath the fences and guard posts lies what was once a frontline air base in the Pacific War — a strip of sandy ground that Japanese engineers carved out of the southwestern tip of Penghu Island in a single year. The airfield's history didn't vanish because it was unimportant. It vanished because the gates closed, and closed gates have a way of erasing things.

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/j/wude-airfield-wp/wsjj-wude-airfield-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wude Airfield: The Strategic Prize of Penghu https://qualla.com/wude-airfield/ Penghu sits between Taiwan and mainland China like a stepping stone dropped in the Taiwan Strait, which made it militarily significant long before aviation existed. During Japanese colonial rule, the islands were served initially by Anshan Airfield on Chetian Island — a modest gr...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/j/wude-airfield-wp/wsjj-wude-airfield-the-strategic-prize-of-penghu.mp3 0:06 2 full Wude Airfield: Under the Pacific War's Long Shadow https://qualla.com/wude-airfield/ By April 1943, the 30th Air Base Unit was operating from Zhumushui with Nakajima B5N torpedo bombers and Mitsubishi G3M attack planes. The base changed hands within the Japanese command structure as the war intensified — by May 1944 it fell under the Kaohsiung Garrison's jurisdic...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/j/wude-airfield-wp/wsjj-wude-airfield-under-the-pacific-wars-long-shadow.mp3 0:06 3 full Wude Airfield: Handed Over, Then Forgotten https://qualla.com/wude-airfield/ When Japan surrendered in 1945, the Republic of China Air Force took control of Zhumushui. The airfield served through the late 1940s and into the 1950s, but the jet age made it obsolete. Fighter aircraft and heavy transports needed longer, harder runways than a wartime sand stri...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/j/wude-airfield-wp/wsjj-wude-airfield-handed-over-then-forgotten.mp3 0:06 4 full Wude Airfield: What the Fence Holds In https://qualla.com/wude-airfield/ The peculiar thing about military sites is how thoroughly their closure can rewrite public memory. Zhumushui Airfield absorbed B-25 raids, hosted torpedo bomber crews, and dispatched strike missions across the strait — and yet it is, as its Wikipedia entry puts it bluntly, "littl...

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