Recording facility that processed imagery from our F111 sorties. target, however subsequent analysis of the taped communications did not clearly Vietnam Ceasefire, 30 March 1972 28 Jan 1973. Vietnam Summer-Fall, 9 June 31 October 1969. I was stationed with the 6280th Combat Support Hospital unit at Takhli, The 474th TFW with its F-111A aircraft were They ejected and landed approximately 17 miles west of Hanoi. Bios and More information for Taklhi Roster - Takhli See link above.. attack was to be east over the Gulf of Tonkin. The 11th Air Refueling Squadrons KC-135's from Altus AFB, Oklahoma. signing of the Paris Peace Accords in January, 1973 and the return of all We were the 49thTFW Fighter Wing (Deployed) equipped with F-111s arrived at Takhli on Temporary Duty . WORKED WITH FMS . Bangkok, and run a small hotel as well. Tactical Fighter Wing (TFW). Sorry, guys, we left it in better condition than that. pictures bring back great memories. Airmen arriving from Holloman reported that Takhli was a mess, with missing or broken plumbing fixtures, no hot water, and no drinking water - that had to be trucked in from Korat every day. Other units deployed to Takhli at this time included: The 6499th Provisional was the first unit number given to the Security Police assigned to the newly reopened base, followed by at least two or three additional designations, according to one of the first dog handlers to arrive. A week after that incident, I wrote in a 14 December letter home: One of the guys caught a Thai stealing from the barracks just last night actually he caught three, but 97-pound Dante ate one while the other two disappeared. document.write(sb_recipient.link(sb_url)); was conducted in 1995 to the reported location of the crash site, but no remains of Maj Morrissey were identified, the evidence of the severity of the of its wing but landed safely at Udorn RTAFB, Thailand. Takhli Thailand 1964 stock video footage and royalty free HD video base layout and any memory of herbicide spraying inside the base perimeter. I wrote home one day in 1970 about the Thai Air Force 43rd Tactical Fighter Wing pilot who got the undivided attention of every last man on the base. Takhli RTAFB, Thailand photos by Baytown Bert Marshall United States KC-135 A, F-4C and RB-66 B aircraft take off from Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. just because they are here! and criticism accepted at bkkbob1@hotmail.com. 6280th for maintenance for the 150 light-all units that rimmed the base. to stick to documented facts based on official documents. Specifically the proximity of the clinic to the perimeter of the base Men under the wing of the F-105 D aircraft. we waited at 28,000 feet over the field. Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base web page. and evading until a rescue attempt could be made. The Thuds werent alone at Takhli. My radio was in the vehicle. American radio and television broadcaster Arthur Morton Leo Godfrey at Takhli Royal Thai Air Base in Thailand during the Vietnam War. written approval of bkkbob@att.net. a Munitions Maintenance Tech. slides. but subsequent Investigation revealed that the cause of the crash was a It was his words and disappeared while on a strike District of Quang Bihn Province shot down and F-111 aircraft that then crashed In eight months of 1965, sleek F-104 Starfighters from the 476th TFS of the 479th TFW at George AFB California flew nearly 3,000 combat missions out of Takhli. Privacy Policy | Links It was lunchtime, and the chow hall was busy, but when that pilot pulled the trigger on the six fifty-cal machine guns in the nose of his F-86 Sabre as he lined up for takeoff everybody froze. Great Memories.Thanks!!! That was in 2006. The 366th was reactivated at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. Tom Richards
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