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Can Tho International Airport Inside the terminal of the Can Tho International Airport. Can Tho International Airport [1] (IATA: VCA, ICAO: VVCT) — formerly Trà Nóc Airport — is an international airport located in Can Tho in Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. The airport was inaugurated on January 1, 2011 and received US$150 million to build ...
Cần Thơ Base Camp (also known as Cần Thơ Army Airfield) is a former U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force (USAF), Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) and current People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) base west of Cần Thơ in the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam.
Cần Thơ, anglicized as Can Tho or Cantho, is the fourth-largest city in Vietnam, and the largest city along the Mekong Delta region in Vietnam. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It is noted for its floating markets , rice paper -making village, and picturesque rural canals . [ 8 ]
February 20: VC threw four hand grenades into a crowded village theater near Can Tho, killing 24 women and children. In all, 108 persons were killed or injured. April 8: the VC executed two wounded American prisoners of war near the village of An Châu. Each, hands tied, was shot in the face because he could not keep up with the retreating captors.
[60] [18] The airport remained closed for over fourteen hours, until 11:00 a.m. on January 30. [61] The fuselage of Flight 5342 was found upside down in three sections in the river and is being recovered. [12] The search for debris was extended to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, three miles (5 km) south of the airport. [1]
In the days immediately following the collapse of the Can Tho bridge, reports of the number of men killed, injured, and missing varied widely: According to Vietnam News Agency and CNN, 52 people dead and 149 injured. [21] [22] According to Vietnam Net, 49 corpses have been found and 181 people injured. [23]
Operation Coronado XI was the eleventh of the Operation Coronado series of riverine military operations conducted by the U.S. Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) and units of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), designed to secure Cần Thơ in the aftermath of the Tet Offensive.
Major Charles Livingston Kelly (10 April 1925 – 1 July 1964) was a United States Army helicopter pilot and medical evacuation unit commander during the Vietnam War.Because of the central role he played in the development of early battlefield evacuation techniques during the war—and the central role his death on the battlefield played in cementing those techniques in Army doctrine at a time ...