Huang Chin-tao, born in 1926 in Dajia, Taichung, was one of the few surviving frontline commanders of the armed resistance during the February 28 Incident. As a young man he was conscripted as a Taiwanese soldier in the Japanese army and sent to fight in the South Seas during the Second World War, where he acquired real combat experience. Returning home after the war, he was drawn into the uprising that swept Taichung in March 1947. When Hsieh Hsueh-hung organized the 27 Brigade, Huang joined as a squad leader, and after the brigade withdrew from the city to the mountain town of Puli he was placed in command of the defensive line at Wuniulan. On March 16, drawing on the high ground of the Ailan plateau and the narrow bridgehead, he led a force of young students and demobilized veterans that briefly inflicted heavy losses on the advancing 21st Division, in what became the last and fiercest engagement of organized Taiwanese armed resistance in the entire February 28 period. After the brigade disbanded he went into hiding, but was eventually arrested, sentenced, and imprisoned for more than twenty years, much of it on Green Island. Released only in his later years, he devoted the rest of his life to testifying to what had happened, becoming a living witness to the Wuniulan battle until his death in 2014. His account preserved for later generations the concrete texture of a battle that the authorities had long tried to erase.

• Commanded the frontline at the Battle of Wuniulan (1947)

• Imprisoned for over twenty years as a February 28 political prisoner