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The initial squadrons and units deployed to Takhli were placed under the command and control of the Thirteenth Air Force, headquartered at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. Thailand-based aircraft flew missions mostly into Laos until the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which expanded the air war into North Vietnam .
Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. CD-ROM. Glasser, Jeffrey D. (1998). The Secret Vietnam War: The United States Air Force in Thailand, 1961–1975. McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-0084-6. Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947–1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force ...
The end of the war resulted in all US personnel and equipment being removed by 1976 at Thai request. The Royal Thai Air Force found it too costly to operate any but Khorat and Takhli. Many of the others were turned over to the Department of Civil Aviation. (RTN) U-Tapao International Airport-----12 41' N, 101 00' E
From the US Air Force setting up a base at that time. As a result, Takhli has become a red-light district for service to the G.I., especially in Ban Takhli railway station area there were many pubs, bars and sporting houses, make this quarter known locally as Thanon Daeng (ถนนแดง, "red street").
Takhli is a town in the province of Nakhon Sawan in northern Thailand. The population (2005) is 42,700. The population (2005) is 42,700. It is the site of the Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base .
Flown by 102 Squadron, Wing 1, Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base F-16A/B Block 15 OCU: 12/6 Flown by 103 Squadron, Wing 1, Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base F-16AM/BM Block 20 MLU: 12/6 Flown by 403 Squadron, Wing 4, Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base [20] JAS 39 Gripen: Sweden: Multirole combat aircraft: JAS 39C: 7 JAS 39D: 4 Also provide conversion ...
331st Air Base Squadron – Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base; 332nd Air Base Squadron – Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base; Detachment 1, 35th Tactical Group – Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base; A detachment of USAF U-21s based at Don Muang supported MACT operations, and in 1964 these were joined by two CV-2 Caribous. [1]: 410
English: U.S. Air Force aircraft at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base, in 1972. In the foreground are two General Dynamics F–111As from the 429th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 474th Tactical Fighter Wing. The other aircraft are 25 McDonnell Douglas F–4D Phantom II of the 49th TFW.