The Bada Tower () is a tower in

Lieyu Township Lieyu Township (Liehyu) (; pinyin: ''Lièyǔ Xiāng''; Hokkien POJ: ''Lia̍t-sū-hiong'') is a rural township in Kinmen County (Quemoy), Fujian Province, Republic of China (Taiwan). It mainly consists of Lesser Kinmen (; Pīnyīn: ''Xiǎojīnmé ...

Kinmen County Kinmen, alternatively known as Quemoy, is a group of islands governed as a county by the Republic of China (Taiwan), off the southeastern coast of mainland China. It lies roughly east of the city of Xiamen in Fujian, from which it is separate ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

History

The tower was constructed in 1963 by the Republic of China Armed Forces to commemorate the fallen seven soldiers from the 1st squad, regiment 145 from the 25th division in Gubeikou, Peking in 1933 in holding back thousands of

Imperial Japanese Army The was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945. It was controlled by the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office and the Ministry of the Army, both of which were nominally subordinate to the Emperor o ...

during the

Anti-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Thea ...

Architecture

The 8-meter tower is located at the center of a

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. On top of it stand statues of soldiers. The propaganda words surrounding the tower reads ''Fight Independently'', ''Persevere'' and ''Survive Death''.

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1963 establishments in Taiwan Buildings and structures in Kinmen County Lieyu Township Monuments and memorials in Taiwan Roundabouts and traffic circles in Taiwan Tourist attractions in Kinmen County Towers completed in 1963 {{Taiwan-struct-stub

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