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From Declassified, this is a United States Air Force intelligence report, "Taiwanese Air Force Activity," issued by the Military Assistance Advisory Group, Formosa, on June twenty-ninth, nineteen-fifty-five. It details aerial engagements between Nationalist Chinese aircraft and mainland Communist Chinese Mi G fighters. This declassified record is available at archive.org. This document was released by The Black Vault under the Freedom of Information Act and publicly disseminated on December sixteenth, two-thousand-twenty-one. No specific F-O-I-A case number is provided. The declassification authority is not explicitly stated within the released document. The document states: "On twenty-eighth June, Nationalist Chinese Air Force flew normal patrol, visual and photographic reconnaissance. One of their R-F-Eighty-Four type aircraft damaged by Mi G-Fifteen fired about fifteen point three zero millimeter rounds, was repaired during night of twenty-seventh to twenty-eighth June. Fighter aircraft returned to Matsu morning of twenty-eighth June and was sent back to Formosa with wounded M-A-A-G personnel. Cover of four F-Eighty-Six aircraft over U-T-M grid Q-E seven-seven-one-one reported "thirty millimeter gun smoke," aircraft altitude five thousand feet, range about twenty-five hundred feet over U-T-M grid area G-G-four-eight-seven-eight. Same aircraft reported two point three millimeter machine gun fire at range three thousand feet, aircraft at four thousand feet. Nationalist Chinese Air Force not reported either incident. Two R-F-Eighty-Four Nationalist Chinese Air Force aircraft at thirty thousand feet reported "the enemy A-A fired intensively black color, they fired about twenty rounds, then sixty more. Fire range was about twenty-seven thousand feet." Nationalist Chinese Air Force P-Four-Y on night patrol in area twenty-eight degrees twenty-five minutes North, one-hundred-twenty-two degrees three minutes East, fired forty-four millimeter rounds, range four-thousand-five-hundred feet. Aircraft altitude about one thousand two hundred feet, no hits reported. A-Q-S twenty-two zero five on his aircraft reported interception by two unknown aircraft at twenty-eight degrees twenty minutes North, one-hundred-twenty-two degrees three minutes East. Unknowns made a pass one thousand feet above P-Four-Y at high speed. Under clear moonlight, aircraft crew reported unknowns silver in color. Activities reported for twenty-eighth June indicate increased number of attempted interceptions by Mi G aircraft. Nationalist Chinese Air Force radar installations are attempting to record all broadcasts. Because of attempted interceptions. Production of. [one line redacted] while in part is prohibited. [three lines redacted]. [five lines redacted] Approximate twelve F-Eighty-Six pilots now considered fairly combat ready by Nationalist Chinese Air Force and U-S-A-F advisors. Some of these pilots considered by U-S-A-F Korean experienced pilots to be equal in combat to some of…

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This material entered the public record through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. The originating source document is linked on this page so the citation chain is auditable.

Case File · ARCHIVE-383Declassified

Filed SEP 24 · 2026Runtime 1 min

Army: From Declassified, This Is A United States Air Force Intelligence Report

U.S. public record · FOIAUpdated September 24, 2026

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From Declassified, this is a United States Air Force intelligence report, "Taiwanese Air Force Activity," issued by the Military Assistance Advisory Group, Formosa, on June twenty-ninth, nineteen-fifty-five. It details aerial engagements between Nationalist Chinese aircraft and mainland Communist Chinese Mi G fighters.

Date: SEP 24 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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What was Army: From Declassified, This Is A United States Air Force Intelligence Report about?: From Declassified, this is a United States Air Force intelligence report, "Taiwanese Air Force Activity," issued by the Military Assistance Advisory Group, Formosa, on June twenty-ninth, nineteen-fifty-five. It details aerial engagements between Nationalist Chinese aircraft and mainland Communist Chinese Mi G fighters.
Why was this case declassified?: This material entered the public record through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. Storyflo narrates it directly from the public release.

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