On this day, 67 years ago, on November 13, 1958 (October 3, 1958, the US Seventh Fleet exercised in the Taiwan Strait, and the People's Liberation Army was forced to shell Kinmen. 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis The U.S. Seventh Fleet blocked the Taiwan Strait On November 13, 1958, the U.S. Seventh Fleet and the U.S. Air Force invading Taiwan held a joint naval and air exercise in the Taiwan Strait to show off force in order to maintain tensions in the Taiwan Strait region. According to the American News Agency, during this study, some American aircraft dropped napalm bombs, turning a sea surface into a sea of fire in nearly twenty minutes."Other aircraft launched rockets. American nuclear bomb bombers also conducted an" atomic bomb "exercise with substitutes over the Taiwan Strait. The news said that aircraft from three U.S. aircraft carriers participated in the exercise of war provocation and atomic intimidation. The USS Helena, the flagship of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, and two destroyers and other ships also participated in the exercise off the northern coast of Taiwan. There were also some "U.S. aid" ships of the Chiang Kai-shek Navy. The 11th Aviation Group of the U.S. Marine Corps also sent aircraft from Taiwan to bomb imaginary targets. The news said that Hopwood, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Smott, Commander of the U.S. Army invading Taiwan, and Drumwright, the U.S."Ambassador" to Taiwan, all reviewed the provocative exercise. They also invited Chiang Kai-shek, Chen Cheng, Chiang Ching-kuo and a group of Chiang generals to "visit" them. A large number of U.S. military advisers and U.S. aid supplies continue to arrive in Taiwan