Charles Leroy Melson was a vice admiral of the United States Navy. His career included service in World War II, the Korean War, and the Cold War, command of the United States First Fleet and of the United States Taiwan Defense Command, and tours of duty as Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy and President of the Naval War College.
Charles L. Melson
United States Taiwan Defense Command
The United States Taiwan Defense Command was a sub-unified command of the United States Armed Forces operating in Taiwan from December 1954 to April 1979.
Number of U.S. Troops Stationed in Taiwan (1950–1979)
U.S. Army 327th Communications Reconnaissance Company stationed at Shu LinKou Air Station, Taipei, Taiwan, March 1955
16th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron North American F-86D-35-NA Sabre 51–6214, assigned to Naha Air Base, Okinawa, deployed at Chia-Yi AFB, Taiwan, 1955
VMF-451 of the Marine Aircraft Group 11 in Pingtung Air Base, Taiwan, 19 September 1958