1949-02-07 - 1949-02-08

Withdrawal from the Tsingtao base

Tsingtao port / Tsangkou airfield1949-02-07 to 08 · most FMFWesPac elements embark, moving the Tsingtao presence into its final evacuation phase; residual guard elements continue into the May seaborne withdrawal

Other events in this phase

Nationalist Collapse5
  1. Gold yuan currency reform
  2. Withdrawal from the Tsingtao baseCurrent record
  3. Yangtze River crossing
  4. Guangzhou captured
  5. Xiamen captured

Media

SourceSourceTsingtao Historical Report · U.S. Marines 1945-49Reference material for Marine billets, Tsangkou airfield, and the Shantung University compound in Tsingtao.

Source Trail

Diplomatic DocumentFRUS 1949 · phased reduction of Tsingtao activitiesOpen sourceOfficial RecordUSMC HRP transcript · final Tsingtao evacuation phaseOpen source