UDORN Thailand 432nd Tac Recon Wing - OD Green COTTON Air Force and Marines

Air Force and Marines

and machine gun emplacements

the first Sea-Land ship arrived in November 1967

When ordering

In March 1967 Route 9 west of Cam Lộ was reopened to Khe Sanh for the first time since 1964

UDORN Thailand 432nd Tac Recon Wing - OD Green COTTON Air Force and MarinesUdorn RTAFB was established in the 1950s. The civil war inside Laos and fears of it spreading into Thailand led the Thai government to allow the United States to use covertly five Thai bases beginning in 1961 for the air defense of Thailand and to fly reconnaissance flights over Laos. Udorn was one of those bases. Under Thailand's "gentleman's agreement" with the US, RTAF bases used by the US Air Force (USAF) were considered RTAF bases and were