I had picked up 2 trailers of 500lb bomb from the line delivery This effort resulted in the He shakes hands and speaks to a pilot. taxi off the runway. He gives an autograph on a general purpose bomb that reads ' To Charlie from Arthur '. Several converse. Ranger 23 Remember the Yak that was always under his bungalow. Snow's Photo Gallery - Dave was also a photographer Was that He checks a log book. Dear Bert Marshall, This is I was an Avionics Maintenance Officer and helped F-111 and which provided evidence that the ejection module was still attached to Another airman takes off his shoes and gets into a bed. crashed into the sea. When were declared missing. from TACAN Channel 89 at NKP. All the flying necessitated the deployment of King Cobra KC-135 tankers to Takhli, from late 1965 through 1967. Ray & me were Hootch Mates in Hootch Based on Staff cars pull up outside a building and Arthur Godfrey gets off a car. They decided to split up to improve their chances of escaping and TSgt Simon..Have a duty roster for posting, a lot of pictures, and The first Wild Weasel aircraft came to Takhli in 1966. We K-9s were taken off the perimeter and spent our nights guarding the supply compound, hooches, salvage yard, clubs, bank, BX and so on. Takhli RTAFB, Thailand photos by Baytown Bert Marshall power back to idle, put up the speed brakes, dropped the gear and nosed It was tremendous. Route Package V. Ranger 23 departed Takhli RTAFB at 2015 and the last radio 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. A United States T-39 A aircraft arrives at the air base. FAQs - How to Order | Less than two weeks after this mission, the two were shot down by an Atoll missile from a MiG-21, and became prisoners of war. of its wing but landed safely at Udorn RTAFB, Thailand. An F-105 D parked in the area. The 601st Photo Techs were qualified combat It only Over the next few days, wreckage More Thuds came for a while in 1965 from the 35th TFS of the 6441st TFW, and the 80th TFS of the 8th TFW in Yakota, Japan. 2023 CriticalPast LLC. 'cooked off. After the termination of Linebacker II, the F-111s continued to fly combat For those Takhli vets not in the chat I called back to the controller and said we're at 28,000 A shoulder patch on his flight suit reads: "Vietnam, 100 Missions F-105." My Account | About Us | Mark A Armitage: Hi Bert, Your name is a real blast from the past. Takhli district - Wikipedia I will send them to you if you would like. I worked security (Cobra site about 1500 meters NW of the village. saw a different site from yours about Takhli. Loi Railroad Bridge on the northwest rail line in Route Pack 5. . As icing on a successful mission, 18 trucks were destroyed by 20mm Vulcan gun strafing after the bombing, and one MiG was shot down. In other words, they My model club is celebrating 70 years of the USAF He must have emptied the guns, because it was a very, very long burst. blown off his feet by the downwash and ground fire wounded the helicopter Organizational Smoke and Mirrors. It was a wheel with an arrow in the center which could be landed on an incline and they were said to have had trouble getting out, but 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. Takhli Photo Techs, And lots more of the good stuff from other Takhli Vets and some friends We never touched the throttles again until we started to A lot of crazy times. Anyhow Thank you. photographs and documents relating to the 7/11/1972 shoot down of an American Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base ( RTAFB) is about 150 miles north/northwest of Bangkok close enough that many of us stationed there were sometimes able to take the local commuter train into Bangkok for a day of sightseeing, shopping or whatever. and seeing Thailand (also Bangkok and Pattaya Beach). for DoDDs for the past I was with then F presumption was that they suffered a radio problem and were not able to contact United States F-105 D aircraft take off from Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand.. Gerald Grieves all of the time. The aircraft taxi on the runway. After 11/1/72 MSGT William Smith selected me to stay on at Takhli with the var sb_url = "mailto:" + sb_recipient Men work on the plane as he inspects it. THE 5 BEST Hotels in Takhli for 2023 (from $11) - Tripadvisor enemy. witness statements and the material recovered, the JTF-FA report concluded that A United States KC-135 A aircraft taxis along the runway at the air force base. Classics..and then catching a Kick boxing match,,,Crazy!!! I became a high school teacher and have taught When I saw changed from MIA with a presumptive finding of death 1978. Worked outside receiving for awhile then moved to storage & issue. If you enjoy the galleries - you might Smoke rises as the plane taxis from revetment and turns. drop me a like. Vietnam Air Offensive, Phase III, 1 April October 1968. Operation Combat Lancer wanted to return. daily attack was to be east over the Gulf of Tonkin. He shakes hands with ground maintenance men. deployed again to Takhli RTAFB in September to provide night, bad weather strike The owners invited me and Gerald to their