CH'ING-YANG AIRFIELD DEFENSES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05694A000200540008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 18, 1955
• Content Type: IM

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This report dealing with the anti-a? -aft defenses of Ching-yang
Airfield (24%80N - 11803_59E) has been compiled from vertical aerial
photography of The anti.-aircraft defenses
were last reported in OP/I .. 222 of 30 August, At that time the defenses
consisted of sixteen heavy AA guns in four gm batteries, thirty-two
medium AA guns and approximately thirty light AA machine guns, No Si ft-
cant change in AA defenses had been noted on aerial photography up tom
However, it is row apparent that each four gun battery of heavy
AA has been replaced by an eight gun heavy AA battery, Two and probably
four additional heavy AA eight gun batteries have been added to the AA
defenses of the airfield. A whiff radar is associated with five, and
probably with all of the heavy kA batteries,
PHOTO COVERAGI OF
Aerial coverage of three of the four origin-al. heavy V, gun batteries
indicated for the first time that the replacement of .he four 0-M heavy
AA batteries by eight gun batteries was in pro, -mss.
PHOTO COVERAGE OF
Photo coverage of this date revealed that all four of the original
four gun heavy AA batteries were in the process of being replaced by eight
gun batteries. Four to eight new revetments had been constructed in each
battery area. There were eight heavy AA Bans in revetments in two of the
heavy batteries, ton in another and eleven in the fourth, The ad? itiorr.1
guns for a total of timlve in each battery were in the open. The total
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ranker of heavy AA guns noted on ;nis oaverwg? was ft lt-v eight,
PHriTO COVERAGE OF
There are eight '-da Y A.: guns in each of the four origtr a . bet... AA
batteries. T,,jo --lditional eight gw'i heavy AA batteries have been located;
one batter'''s 9.5001 southwest of the south end of the rummy and the
otlie- .:' irnimediately west of Tang- fish two miles southeast of the airfield.
This makes a total of 48 heavy AA gun definitely located. In addition, a
study of soall scale photography (1/60,4vo) reveals a probable eight gun
heavy AA battery appro tely two miles east of the airfield and aw'~r1er
the same distance to the west of the airfield. Including there tva probable
batteries, there are 64 heavy AA guns in the vicinity of Ching yang Airfield.
A whiff radar is associated with five and probably with all of the
heavy AA batteries.
There are eight four gun batteries of medium AA at Ching-yang Airfield.
The replacement of heavy. AA guns was accompanied by some shifting of medium
AA; hotaever, the total number of guns rem fined the same.
Thirty AA nechine guns have been identified at C},ing-fang Airfield.
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greater distance than say of the other visible antennas.
o pales be two p xr line poles or two pole antennas located at
tween the Central Building and tower No.. 3. The
possible fourth and fifth antenna pole are faintly visible as
1 1dUW (1o ? 9). The tower appears to be a pole t antenna
to No. 2.
ftere is no in?Uc tion that the p ower line indicated by poles
a It. 5 and 6 series the area.
entire radio installation. No reads are v .ble.
Sligm?nt of the visible portion of the security fence suggests
rencee One UaUumbered, annotated ground photograph supplied
N671, Stet V-10
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79305, 179306, 179307.
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