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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 ...
Location of Takhli RTAFB, Thailand. Takhli is a town in the province of Nakhon Sawan in northern Thailand. The population (2005) is 42,700. It is the site of the Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base. The town lies on the train line between Bangkok and Chiang Mai and at the Highway 11.
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
Up until now, it is also the location of the Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base of the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF). [2] 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 ...
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
F-105s from the 354th and 333d TFS refueling with a KC-135 from Takhli Air Base. The squadron was deployed to Thailand in late 1965 to Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base for combat operations over Southeast Asia. However, the 333d then transferred to Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base to relieve the 335th Tactical Fighter Squadron.