Takhli Thailand Proudly Served - Black COTTON was an important battle of

was an important battle of the war

The airfield at NKP is jointly used as a civilian airport

An Xuyen (Cà Mau)

The "wards" were typical wooden US Army Vietnam-type barracks

flanked by two densely forested mountain ridges whose summits vary in elevation from 900 to 1

Takhli Thailand Proudly Served - Black COTTON was an important battle ofTakhli RTAFB was established in the 1950s. In the late 1950s, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used Takhli as operating base for CIA resupply of Tibetan freedom fighters. CIA operated C 130A Hercules transports flew men and supplies over Indian airspace, with the consent of Prime Minister Nehru, for parachute drops into Communist Chinese occupied Tibet.[2] Political considerations with regards to Communist forces engaging in a civil