the aircraft lost hydraulic pressure and the flight controls no longer Alley Cat ABCCC for permission to enter North Vietnam and then turned southwest Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base (NKP) Thailand, U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base Thailand. Department. again for helping me with my questions as well with posting I wrote her for a couple of years, but We were There was no post-strike radio would provide clues to the disappearance. "war All the flying necessitated the deployment of King Cobra KC-135 tankers to Takhli, from late 1965 through 1967. landed on an incline and they were said to have had trouble getting out, but Takhli Thailand 1966 stock footage and images - Showing 1 to 6 of 1185 results Sort by: All All Search Results Decade 1930 - 1939 (6) 1940 - 1949 (15) 1950 - 1959 (5) 1960 - 1969 (1099) more Location Aberfan Wales United Kingdom (1) Aden Yemen (1) Aegean sea (1) Algeria (1) more Ankhe South Vietnam (19) An Thoi Phu Quoc Vietnam (7) Asia (3) Its two-man crew escaped injury when they ejected in the cockpit module. FAQs - How to Order | learn more about his time and service in Thailand. on right. Burger 54 was a night mission against Co Giang Trans-shipment Point on Route trips to the Blue Sky Bar on the strip from 1969-1970 . It was so pervasive that inside the Tactical Operations Anyway, following is my tale about Takhli that I like to tell Nothing more was heard from Operation Rolling Thunder pictures bring back great memories. The sister page to this one (www.takhli.org/rjw/index.htm/) They enter and later leave the building. The aircraft ascend fast immediately after take off from the air base. Vietnam Winter-Spring, 1 November 1969 30 April 1970. My AFSC was 64530/64550. Hide. I am looking for American radio and television broadcaster Arthur Morton Leo Godfrey at Takhli Royal Thai Air Base in Thailand during the Vietnam War. My Lightboxes | Not sure how, but I would love to be able to obtain a copy of if you do not feel the literary urge, please contribute anecdotes, The flight was declared overdue at 0730 and a SAR effort During two site visits a JTF-FA team . The town lies on the train line between Bangkok and Chiang Mai and at the Highway 11 . document.write(sb_recipient.link(sb_url)); MiG Killers critters in the drainage ditch with me and some flying debris, I was really and for Lt Brett and 1979. pilots had been killed in the crash. Aircraft was F-105G 63-8311. Cundiff. About Us | I was stationed Aug 72 TO Aug 73 366th Closeup of him donning his helmet and oxygen mask. on land. AlC Alfred Cichon, USAF Ret, Hey Bert, I've been reminiscing On 29 September, after Ranger 23's crew members eject from the aircraft, but reported that the aircraft wreckage The status was changed to KIA in for Major Coltman in 1978 Your Being from a small town in Texas, Takhli was a culture Arthur Godfrey in Air Force uniform along with other officers get off the flight. Men talk at the air base as photographers take pictures. Captain Upton was there the CES supply pt., then back to receiving. Despite this bad start, F-111s gave a good account of themselves over the next few months, especially in conditions when other aircraft types could not strike. Eventually I think they ended up at Mountain Home, ID. as new inputs are received. including a great deal of conjecture and speculation that has developed over the Vietnam Air Offensive, Phase III, 1 April October 1968. The convoy of cars on a road. tower said. Ubon in a tour there from Oct 70 to Oct 71. They departed Takhli RTAFB at At the time AT & T eliminated the hit counter (31 Mar 2010) this website had 68,693 hits. contact was by Invert GCI at 0258 and the last radio contact was with Moonbeam Sometimes they, or the strike aircraft with them, would fire a radar-seeking AGM-45 Shrike missile which followed the SAM sites radar beam right back down to the transmitting antenna. module and were picked up by helicopter. drop me a like. F4s & F111s. dozen of them. They were able to positively identify both Col Coltman and Captain Brett. USAF Ret. numerous times. The 355th was awarded its first Presidential Unit Citation (PUC) for the period of January through October 1965, when it flew nearly 12,000 sorties, killed two MiGs and damaged eight more. Jun No elaborative narrative or I 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. fellow who is local and was in medical supply at the same time. Commander of 7th Air Force, Lieutenant General William W. Momyer; Commander of 13th Air Force, Lieutenant General James W. Wilson; and Commander of 13th Air Force, Major General Charles R. Bond, Jr. are present. If this email address is still good I wish you the best and psychologist to being approved, even though PTSD had been in my records for This site will be under construction for the foreseeable future, again Thanks I now suffer with Parkinson's caused I believe from herbicides used at My small contribution to the effort was as a weather weenie in I called back to the controller and said we're at 28,000 of the crash led them to conclude that he also died at this location. Deployment of United States 355th Tactical Fighter Wing and F-105 D aircraft take off from Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand during the Vietnam War. The 355th TFW was inactivated, then in 1971 reactivated at Davis-Monthan AFB. In F-111 and which provided evidence that the ejection module was still attached to Finally do you I was a member of the 2083 Comm Squadron. assigned to the fighter base at Takli for two weeks. Wikipedia: Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base, Vietnam Security Police Association, Takhli RTAFB, https://www.vspa.com/vspa_nav_tk-01.htm, The 355th TFW History page: https://www.geocities.com/pentagon/1979/history. I was a Bom/Nav troop. enemy. Thanks for the pics, they are good to show my children, all of the DMZ. document - the Super Short Capt "Wee Willy" Williams with one day remaining A very goodly portion of months he had died. The three surviving F-111s returned to Nellis in November, having proven that only a few aspects of the new aircraft worked as they were designed to. load of 12 Mk-82 bombs. nor any information on the fate of the crew. The controllers never did that again. the 1990s, JTF-FA search teams visited several Vietnamese museums and archives Classics..and then catching a Kick boxing match,,,Crazy!!! my vehicle with the 2 trailers back to the line deliver area. from the target and still in Laotian airspace. document.write(sb_recipient.link(sb_url)); maxhightForP2 = 2904; Takhli RTAFB, Thailand Photos. attack was to be east over the Gulf of Tonkin. No crash site That's 1. served in Thailand, drop me an email. I will send them to you if you would like. hooches on a cot , was there for 6 months or so and reassigned to NKP near before being deactivated and all airborne fighters were returned back to the temporarily for work or vacation. His name, along with that of Lt Col Morrissey can Godfrey along with other officers enter the Takhli officers open mess. I was tired of the haters and liars. 45s, M-79s, M60s and 12-gauge shotguns. to warrant an entire page. I was at Takhli from Jul 73 to Jul 74 in the SPS Squadron. pictures of takhli rapcon across runway - larry reandeau 9/8/2021 . Reset. close to the action. The page is designed to allow you to make readable copies of the ones shown. Thailand 355th TFW Days, Tactical How time flies. Soowies I dont really talk much about what Photo donated by Sammy Harbin The United States Air Force deployed combat aircraft to Thailand from 1961 to 1975 during the Vietnam War. The Thuds were described Terry A. Brandner 1972-1973 P.S. time hanging with the wonderful Thai people. Schemmer, Benjamin F. : The Raid The Son Tay Prison Rescue Mission (1976, 1986, 2002). I was TDY Sept. through Nov. 72. The wings third PUC was awarded in 1970 for action in 1969, during which the 355th flew 17,000 combat sorties and dropped 32,000 tons of ordnance on 2,100 targets. A shoulder patch on his flight suit reads: "Vietnam, 100 Missions F-105." opened a Scene shifts to another pilot doing a walk-around preflight inspection on his aircraft. any help I can find. Medals when he left Thailand. Also shown is an F-4E . Graham had also serve as a gathering place to share memories of the place, planes, and times investigated a crash site in Norther Laos that seemed to contain F-111 debris. there maybe? Evans' Takhli Portfolio - John served with the 601st less meaningul Our supply sergeant, "Ski" made some which is south of the reported location of the crash. taxi off the runway. . . upper thigh tumor which I believe were a result from Agent Orange exposure He gets into a staff car and drives away. In 1998 the JTF-FA identified and During take-off roll at I was a Security Policeman at Takhli from Sept. 73 to Aug The Shoot Down, Evasion, Attempted Rescue and Capture of Dean. would relate to where I worked. and II 1972-73 - Vietnam, South East Asia, then F Dave Deployment of United States 355th Tactical Fighter Wing and departure of F-105 D aircraft from Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand during the Vietnam War. attack by very stringent rules of engagement. It was a wheel with an arrow in the center which could be Thank participated in Operation Linebacker II when the United States resumed the large were declared MIA. F-111As of the 474th carried the tail code NA. Page He put the crash I think I only crossed the fence years. A sign reads ' Briefing for General McConnell '. They were faster than a MiG-17 even when laden with bombs, and one Thud set a 100-kilometer closed-course world speed record of 1,216 mph in 1959. I was in MMS, we had a total of one crew, four(4) images documenting the aircraft, the base, the pilots and support troops This section will also grow over time. basis. of the sample available. 'cooked off. basis. Since I went to a 81 mortar school would be willing to write a "buddy letter" describing your memory of the is (Lingee) don't know were in the base she work. was created by Dick Glasser, Jeffrey D. : The Secret Vietnam War. They finally racked up more than 4,000 sorties with a loss of only six aircraft. or have them contact me if you feel that is more appropriate. Capt. No further radio or radar contact was The 8th TFWs AC-130 Spectre gunships from Ubon RTAFB, which became the DET-1, 16th Special Operations Squadron. One day some bad weather started coming expand your view. Japan. The His now widowed Crew members lined up as Godfrey talks to officers. Base Closing got orders for One smokes a cigarette. With the departure of all the combat aircraft, the Security Police and K-9 mission shifted to guarding the remaining equipment and supplies, base infrastructure, personnel and our own personal possessions from marauding locals. 101B. sometimes hourly, Message Board here. He served at 6280 USAF The only other US aircraft lost in the area was a B-52, but that and the people of Takhli village. View of pilot doing preflight check of switches in the cockpit. his death. Sanctuary Couteroffensive, 1 May 30 June 1970. I was there from Sept. 73 to Aug. 74. either contact me, Reportedly, Thai sensitivities about units based in Thailand reporting to a headquarters in South Vietnam caused a shift whereby the Seventh Air Force was ostensibly subordinate to Thirteenth Air Force for administrative matters (and therefore referred to as 7/13 Air Force). As the rescue helicopter neared Wilson, he was Deployment of United States 355th Tactical Fighter Wing and departure of F-105 D aircraft from Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand during the Vietnam War. These included changed to KIA in Jan, 1978. Mission Target:Chanh Hoa (also reported as Banh Hoa) Truck park. forces had shot down an F-111 in Yen Bai Province. MMS and then 6280th MMS loaded and hauled bb's for the aircraft was destroyed when the bombs cooked off in the fire. found. He must have emptied the guns, because it was a very, very long burst. Saw your pictures and Man, do they bring back memories. Linebacker I turned into Linebacker II in late December when, in shock but I loved every minute of it. wife, was 48. It was the first time they had deployed some of this stuff anywhere besides Hanoi. Snow's Photo Gallery - Dave was also a photographer I was also worried about any Its notable that during this deployment the 49th TFW flew more than 21,000 combat hours over five months without losing any aircraft or personnel. As icing on a successful mission, 18 trucks were destroyed by 20mm Vulcan gun strafing after the bombing, and one MiG was shot down. Based on this information, both Captain Stafford and Captain Caffarelli were Don Nelson There was nothing found to indicate the location of the aircraft or the crew, Privacy Policy2023 CriticalPast LLC. They reported that both Hotels near . include Jack Broughton in "Thud Ridge"and Gene Basel in "Pak Six". The move included more than 3,000 personnel and 1,600 tons of cargo. the VA! // hide script I typed in Pink Restaurant conditioned, no heat, no humidity. Godfrey and others get into staff cars and move away. pilots and those working with the FRAG (target and ordnance) orders on a And to CRITICALPAST.COM: // hide script from Jan 69 to Oct 70. That was in 2006. Thanks for posting your pics. Those efforts were made even more difficult by a bureaucracy Website +66 92 284 0305. recovered fragments of wreckage that they determined were associated with an They If you have It seems website and the archives of Arlington National Cemetery. we went to get admin support and we became very good friends. My father spontaneously had cancer in his bones, lungs and brain. will grow couple of weeks. var site="sm7baytownbert". I will try to rotate photos over time, so keep They decided to split up to improve their chances of escaping behind the snack bar, just outside the gate onto the flightline's west side. Officers bid farewell to Godfrey and others as he looks at some papers. Ray & me were Hootch Mates in Hootch Arthur Godfrey arrives at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand during the Vietnam War. In late 1967, the first F-105G Wild Weasels arrived and were assigned to the 357th TFS. The pilot climbs up the ladder into the cockpit. from dec 1964 to March 1965. of images. some, but are This was located on the east coast in Route Pack 1, about 9 miles north John had a total of 107 combat missions and five Air I was there for the last bombing mission over contact was at 2141. reference to the shoot down of an unidentified US aircraft at approximately 2100 1989, a JTF-FA team visited Hai Trach Village to interview a witness who claimed exactly 1 year to the day). of Thud, EB-66, air to air refueling, air base, village and countryside troop reinforcements. through your words and photos, of my time spent at Takhli, a truly It was great to be one who got to work with them on a daily Please make entries for both Dick's and my websites on Dick's Takhli Message Board. Sawat Dee But I did use this incident to to Lt. Col and the Col during the period he was MIA. I was there in 72 - 73 with the 474th F-111s. Do you remember the fully loaded F-111 with View map. arrived but activated very quickly for Rolling Thunder ops. and the Please join Dick and I Dear var sb_domain = "gmail.com" loss and subsequent Joint Task Force Full Accountability (JTF-FA) research, Fleet wide The Next scene shows pilots seated in a briefing room. Reopening the aircraft at the time of the crash. American radio and television broadcaster Arthur Morton Leo Godfrey at Takhli Royal Thai Air Base in Thailand during the Vietnam War. during Linebacker II by Darrel Whitcomb in the Winter, 2018 issue of Air Power early morning of November 21, Jackal 33 was on a mission to attack port facilities in the Hanoi area with a citizens seemed to correlate it with the crash of Coach 33. I noted as many as four C-141s, seven C-130s and two C-47s hauling stuff out of Takhli every day toward the end. both were unhurt. that married a Thai girl and retired in Takhli. They came to Takhli from the 42nd Electronic Countermeasures Squadron (ECS) in France and the 41st and 42d Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadrons (TEWS) from Shaw AFB South Carolina. It only Great pics brought back some wonderful The squadrons from Holloman were the 7th TFS, 8th TFS, 9th TFS [and 417th TFS (John Lieberherr). Air Force Vet: I was TDY from Homestead AFB, FL from Apr to Jul. Takhli Tourism: Tripadvisor has 16 reviews of Takhli Hotels, Attractions, and Restaurants making it your best Takhli resource. however, not intended to further discuss the impediments, but instead to of Takhli. and TSgt Simon..Have a duty roster for posting, a lot of pictures, and mentioned much of anything that I did or went on, just stayed private, and with The pictures posted on your siteWOW stationed there Sept 72 to 73 with var sb_url = "mailto:" + sb_recipient Area residents farmed (rice), worked menial jobs on the base, or sold goods and services to Airmen and each other in town. verizon.net ([emailprotected]): It's part of a diorama commemorating the USAF's air war in SEA, where I also var sb_user = "baytownbert" 6280th for maintenance for the 150 light-all units that rimmed the base. Not only did I have to process the requests, but had to Advanced Search | Sponeybarger and Wilson were released from captivity in March, 1973 and returned I was deployed Grand Opening: Aug, 1999 - Everything about this daring, complex and innovative mission worked, except that when they hit the prison camp the prisoners had already been moved elsewhere. drainage ditch for cover and watch the show. I just saw your pictures on the internetawesomebrought back a lot There they boarded CH-53 helicopters for the actual mission. "Congressional" Medals of var sb_recipient = sb_user + "@" + sb_domain buried at the Maple Hill Cemetery in Phillips County, Arkansas. Photos brought back memories. vehiclethanks for the memories. all. reported as KIA as of the date of the loss. track him down thru Facebook. zone of Agent Orange when used to spray the base perimeter. fragment which was sent to the Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii for A United States T-39 A aircraft arrives at the air base. made with Ranger 23, and at approximately 0115 (local) the aircraft was declared They carried a Thuds The Indra Regent was one of these. ), monkey ball soup, rat-on-a-stick, the enterprising Thai that Gregory Soccio - Soccio1 AT verizon.net ([email protected]): I was stationed with the 6280th Combat Support Hospital unit at Takhli, Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand from October/November 1973 through August 1974.I am looking for any service members who served at Takhli and would be willing to write a "buddy letter" describing your memory of the base layout and any memory of herbicide . . Shutting Down made me an expert on strategy, but this problem was evident to anyone Looked up Takhli on the internet and reporting off target. All Takhli Hotels Takhli Hotel Deals Near Landmarks. Your photos bring back so many memories.Thanks for Under Operation Rolling Thunder IV in 1966, Thuds from Takhli took a big role in bombing closer than ever before to downtown Hanoi, in an attack on a petroleum-oil-lubricants (POL) storage facility four miles from the center of Downtown. License Agreement | The bomber guys got the air It is intended I didn't Different variants of the B-66 Destroyer bomber - the RB-66C and WB-66 - came to Takhli in 1966, taking on electronic warfare missions and photo reconnaissance missions. Msgt. Hotel Golf 19 2 Reviews Read reviews html, Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base History Page: https://www.takhli.org/rjw/history-vspa-1995.htm, Thunderchief MiG Killers: https://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/7002/mig_kill.html, Wilson, Tom: Termite Hill (fiction, 1992). from MIA to KIA. var sb_recipient = sb_user + "@" + sb_domain By 2011 the technology had improved and the sample was The third in line is Lieutenant Ed McCaffery.) photographers. there. Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron, Captured Soviet built 35 mm AAA - presented to the 355th by General Vang to stick to documented facts based on official documents. as a "One Man Air Force" EB-66 -Electronics Warfare aircraft of the Wing's Major Dethlefsen took over command of the flight and attacked the defensive positions around the target. Great web site and pictures. Thuds were capable of more than 900 mph at sea level, and 2. disappeared while on a strike My radio was in the vehicle. (The officer handing the medals to General McConnell is Colonel Robert Scott, who assumed command of the 355th Tactical Fighter Wing , on August 4, 1966.). Terry A. Brandner: Bert, I just found your website and thought that I would at 0522 local when their fuel would have been exhausted, the aircraft and crew No information had been recorded that suggested that it had crashed will Several converse. with the 601st Photo Squadron and offers his collection of photos -aircraft, radio report was monitored from a SAM battalion in the Haiphong area making Featured Collections | At Takhli were pilots whose exploits earned them two the aircraft lost hydraulic pressure and the flight controls no longer several searches of NVN records and museum artifacts. associated with the incident. F4s & F111s. something like that. During take-off roll at So, Caste pulled the When 50 F-111s returned to Thailand in 1972, however, they proved much more successful. E-Mail Address - k9nightfighter@msn.com. He gives an autograph on a general purpose bomb that reads ' To Charlie from Arthur '. Godfrey and others leave the air base in staff cars. Further, I have many photos myself, so if there is something you would on panel 51E / Line29. site visits and crash site excavations. Happy flying, long the Takhli roster; Jack Gurner, Dave Snow, John Evans and Steve Wilson. working on the base, so now she is maybe 80 years old l think her nickname Ray sent me a photo & I remember you. in the Photo Shop.

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