Qingshui Daiyang Oil Depot Introduction
In the 1950s, Taiwan and the United States signed a mutual defense treaty, which led to the expansion of the original Gongguan Airport. It was renamed "Ching Chuan Kang" Airport in honor of anti-Japanese hero General Chiu Ching-Chuan, becoming the largest air force base in the Far East at that time. In 1962, following the outbreak of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military stationed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft in Taiwan, using Ching Chuan Kang Airport as a logistics base. In 1966, seven fuel depots were constructed in Yangcuo Village, Qingshui District, nearby the base to supply fuel for American fighter jets and B-52 bombers. With the end of the Vietnam War and the severing of diplomatic ties, this location gradually lost its important military status, and the Dayang Fuel Depot remains the only historical building, witnessing the cultural backdrop of the Vietnam War, standing like a giant on the Dadu Plateau.
