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Units at Phan Rang Air Base were under the command of the RVNAF 2d Air Division at Nha Trang AB. 92d Tactical Wing 524th/534th/548th Fighter Squadron A-37; Det D 259th Helicopter Squadron UH-1H (Medevac) On 15 September 1974 a hijacker took control of an Air Vietnam Boeing 727-121C on a flight from Da Nang to Saigon and demanded to be flown to ...
Shortly after the squadron's arrival at Phan Rang, the 366th Wing moved on paper to Da Nang Air Base, and the 35th Tactical Fighter Wing became the squadron's new headquarters. The squadron continued combat operations in Vietnam until the 35th Wing stood down from combat on 26 June 1971. [ 23 ]
North Vietnam withdrew its diplomats from Cambodia. [3]: 331 26 March. North Vietnam refused an offer by South Vietnam for the release and repatriation of 343 wounded or ill prisoners of war, declaring that there were no members of the PAVN in the south. The North Vietnamese representatives at the Paris Peace Talks asserted that the captives ...
Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Bien Hoa Air Base, Da Nang Air Base, South Vietnam, 1965–1968. 35th Tactical Fighter Wing (B-57B) (PACAF) Phan Rang Air Base, South Vietnam, 1968–1969 8th Bombardment Squadron, Tactical (Tail Code: PQ) 13th Bombardment Squadron, Tactical (Tail Code: PV) 15th Tactical Fighter Wing (B-57G) (TAC)
Pleiku Air Base, Republic of Vietnam (Closed 1971) Phan Rang Air Base, Republic of Vietnam (Closed 1972) Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand, (Closed 1971, Reopened 1972–1974) Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Republic of Vietnam (Closed 1973) Tuy Hoa Air Base, Republic of Vietnam (Closed 1970) U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield, Thailand, (Closed ...
For operations along the central coast and the Ho Chi Minh trail regions, Ranch Hand operated out of Da Nang Air Base (1964–1971). Other bases of operation included Phù Cát Air Base (1968–1970), Tan Son Nhut Air Base (1962–1966), Nha Trang Air Base (1968–69), Phan Rang Air Base (1970–1972), and Tuy Hoa Air Base (1971–1972). [23]
The remains of a U.S. Air Force pilot who died while serving in the Vietnam War were personally flown home by the man's sonā — 52 years after the two saw each other for the last time.
During July the operation had shifted to defensive actions in and around Firebase Ripcord which ended with the forced evacuation of the base on 23 July 1970. [4]: E-23 E-23 On 1 August the ARVN 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment operating 31 km north-northwest of A Shau Valley engaged a PAVN force killing 12 for the loss of one ARVN killed.