S5E39 - Shulinkou Air Station – Part 3: Taiwan and the Gulf of Tonkin – S5-E39

We end our Shulinkou trilogy by tying together the surprisingly interconnected Taiwan–U.S.–Vietnam story. It’s July 1964, and two U.S. Navy destroyers are in Taiwan preparing for an intelligence-gathering mission off the coast of North Vietnam. Shulinkou Air Station provided intel, specialized equipment, and trained personnel for the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy – ships about to play starring roles in the controversial incident that helped draw the United States fully into the Vietnam War.

Amid this geopolitical drama, we follow the story of a young Navy intelligence specialist, Joe Miller. A forbidden...