New book: The Black Bats: CIA Spy Flights over China from Taiwan 1951-1969

I never met Chris before but Clarence Fu is one of my best friends in military aviation field. We have known each other for more than 20 years.

Clarence has published couple books regarding military aviation history of Republic Air Force, including F-100, F-104 service records with ROCAF, covert airborne missions during the early eras of cold war.

History of U-2 missions with ROCAF was rarely mentioned in the English world and I am more than happy to see books like this available. If you are living near National Museum of US Airforce, Chris is going to introduce this book. You can find the news at: http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123199296

You can find this book here: http://www.schifferbooks.com/newschiffer/book_template.php?isbn=9780764335136

THE 1958 QUEMOY CRISIS AN ORAL HISTORY

I like to read history books, especially military history. In recent years, I have chance to know or obtain some good materials that I like to introduce to you. Although this conflict happened more than 50 years ago, rarely this type of historical information was published in English.

THE 1958 QUEMOY CRISIS AN ORAL HISTORY is published by the Military History and Translation office under Ministry of National Defense of Republic of China (Taiwan is usually called by westerners). This was the last major battle between Taiwan and Communist China and some of the U.S. military personals were involved.




The team worked on this book interviewed 28 people in the both military services and some of them became higher ranking officers in both countries. Lots of photos show readers people and events during that periods from different point of views.

I first heard this book last year from a friend of mine. I got it when I went back to Taiwan to visit families. I also had chance to obtain the other two in this series also published in English and I will introduce them later.

If you would like to order a copy from the published, here is the web site. The author of this blog offers couple copies he received and I am not sure he still has any available.

Enjoy it.

SharePoint Conference in the USA in Year 2010

These are the SharePoint conferences in the USA I know so far:

The SharePoint Technology Conference
2/10 -2/12
San Francisco
http://sptechcon.com/


Microsoft Teched North America 2010
6/7 – 6/10
New Orleans, LA
http://northamerica.msteched.com/?CR_CC=100280255&WT.srch=1&CR_SCC=100280255&WT.srch=1

SharePoint.org Conference
4/18 – 4/21
Baltimore, MD
http://www.sharepointconference.org/Pages/default.aspx

The Experts Conference
4/25 – 4/28
Los Angeles
http://www.tec2010.com/

Best Practice Conference
8/24 – 8/27
Washington DC
http://www.bestpracticesconference.com/?gclid=CKGBwIKcx5QCFQ2L1QodLlYVkQ