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Detachment 13 remained at Phu Cat until November 1971 when it was inactivated. [7] On 13 April 1969, Detachment 1 612th TFS left the base and was replaced by the 480th Tactical Fighter Squadron equipped with F-4D Phantom II combat aircraft which moved from Da Nang AB. [4] On 11 May the 174th TFS returned to the US, followed by the 355th TFS on ...
Phu Cat Air Base Security Forces of the United States Air Force were Air Police and Security Police squadrons responsible for the air base ground defense of Phù Cát Air Base in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Phu Cat AB was the field test site for the six-month combat evaluation of the 1041st USAF Security Police Squadron (Test) from 16 ...
Phu Cat Air Base, South Vietnam, 10 May 1966; Detachment 1 Plieku, RVN 1967-Tuy Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam, 1 January 1970; Westover Air Force Base, Massachusetts, 15 April 1970; McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, 15 September 1973; RAF Wethersfield, England, 8 April 1979 – 31 August 1990; Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, 2 June 1997 ...
Date Duration Operation Name Unit(s) – Description Location VC–PAVN KIA (US Sources) Allied KIA(US Sources) Jan 1 – Mar 31: Operation Skysweep [1]: 1st Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment clear and search operation
Phu Cat Air Base, Vietnam, 1 January 1967 – 31 August 1971; ... Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969: 9 June 1969 – 31 October 1969: 537th Tactical Airlift Carrier Squadron [1]
Life magazine published the photographs of 242 Americans killed in one week in Vietnam; this is now considered a watershed event of negative public opinion toward the war. [59] [60] 28 June. A Gallup poll showed that 61% of Americans opposed a total withdrawal from South Vietnam, 29% favored total withdrawal and 10% were undecided. [5]: 302
On 31 August 1971 the remaining unit at Phu Cat Air Base, the 537th Tactical Airlift Squadron, inactivated, followed shortly thereafter by the 536th Tactical Airlift Squadron. During their five years' flying for the 483rd, the C-7A Caribous carried more than 4.7 million passengers, averaging more than one million a year during 1967–1969.
612th TFS F-100D 53-3513 taxiing on the parking apron 355th TFS North American F-100D-80-NH Super Sabre Serial 56–3374 on a mission into North Vietnam from Phu Cat AB 389th TFS McDonnell F-4D-31-MC Phantom 66–7715 at Phu Cat AB, South Vietnam 1969 480th TFS McDonnell F-4D-31-MC Phantom 66–7733 at Phu Cat AB, South Vietnam 1969