Well, I'll be! The USAF didn't lose all of the papers after all, just some of them. Yup! even those accounts are danged warm.     https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0359meaning/    

No patch but a pin of Wuerzburg Rod and Gun Club, I found some years ago. The pin measures 3,5 cm in diameter.    

Hmmmm, an almost day by day accounting of what was going on in Taiwan. I guess not all the information was lost.       https://warhistory.org/@msw/article/taiwan-air-force-taiwanese-straits

Amazing, the ribbon is spectacular, the oily sooty stains, the wear really speak volumes.  Congrats!

Nope! The Hoover institute cites two Navy carrier battle groups deployed and some nukes to Taiwan along with everything else. Not feeling the "cold" at all!   https://www.hoover.org/research/guns-august-taiwan-strait-1958

Nope! Nukes on the table is also not feeling very "cold".       https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2021-05-28/nuclear-war-china-tensions-over-taiwan-raise-profile-1958-crisis

Nope! not feeling the "Cold" with this story.     https://spectator.org/taiwan-china-eisenhower/

Have you read the link I posted? It was created by the USAF and its the history of that unit. If anyone has the history of an Airforce unit, one would think it would be the Airforce. They seem to be very complete until the unit moves to Japan. Then poof! nothing....how do they not notice that?      I have been digging into the shoot downs. So lets go over that...some is known about the Russian shoot downs, not everything and nothing about the Chinese shoot downs. I have only found one site that reviewed the 2nd Taiwan incident in 1958 that mentions USAF/China air contact, but gives no details.       So, lets go over the part about no war at that time. May I suggest reading what President Eisenhower was considering in reguard's to the 2nd Taiwan incident in 1958? Churchill advised Eisenhower to take nukes off the table so Eiesenhower sent the 7th fleet with two carriers and a butt load of Airforce aircraft to Taiwan.      The 45th Tac Recon was the only Tac Recon operating in the Pacific at that time. They had U2's in Atsugi, but I have seen nothing that links Atsugi to the 2nd Taiwan incident, but the site that mentions contact between USAF and Chinese aircraft also mentions Tac Air patrols finding an airbase 40 miles inland from Taiwan  incident.        May I suggest a read over of that area at that time, nothing about it was cold.       With all of the static of another Taiwan incident at hand it would be worth noting we have been here before.              

Crossing the Kocher River April 1945   https://youtu.be/3w8fsyztPV8

Saw this on a page for the M9. A Proto type with M7 style grips.    http://m9m4.com/index.cfm?currentpage=24