Looking forward to Part 2. Would love to hear more if you have the time. My Account | Link to this photo view: Link to this photo large view: I hope to hear back from you and I will try to locate and download pics of my tour. I have found an airman stationed at Ubon who worked on B57 has filed AO claim. [6] The 45th TFS was on Temporary duty assignment (TDY) from its permanent home at MacDill AFB, Florida. That would be Oct 2nd. My name is Rey Duran, and I was station in Ubon RTAFB in Feb.1967 thru Feb. 1968. I pray that VA wont take years with skin cancer link. The senior director supervises all the members performing their tasks. Respond you guys for the truth, as I know it. In time it went away and for about a year the rash would return. Or ask where is the safety pin for the centerline rack. MAC. The Laos border is about 60 kilometres directly east. Now I wonder if they had only one rifle and we all signed for the same weapon. Was there in Dec 69 -Dec 70. Pilot fills out Form 1. Sq. Is any one receiving disability benefits because of Agent Orange who were in Thailand 1968 and 1969. Another machine gun burst and impact on satchel charges on the VC sappers explode, six bodies or parts thereof were loaded up the next morning, hauled downtown to be burned on a brush pile. View from cockpit as It taxis along the runway after landing. We all got a lengthy talk about seat safety since our group would have to get in the seats to test our equipment. I was a J4620 in the 433rd under Wing Com Col Robin Olds and Vice Com. [15]:1569, The 16th SOS also tested 2 Project Black Spot AC/NC-123s beginning in December 1969. Major Mack stands in front of the aircraft. He is looking for anyone who was stationed there at that time time. Japan and their photo lab arrived at Don Muang. The 652 nd Topographic Engineer Battalion depicted the broad reach of American forces in Thailand, which can be seen below. I have a friend, Mike Stanifer that also worked on F4s in Ubon (72-73). Home | Join VDHA | Membership Renewal | Contact Us | Member Login 2023 VDHA All Rights reserved. I have nerve damage, and heart disease also. To win service connection for this Oklahoma . Found that base newspaper from Ubon [Phantom Flyer], had the sapper attack of Jan 70 in it. If I recall it took place after the October mortar attack. Yeah I bet the course was a bit rough back in the 1960s! I wish I could remember the house boys name nicest guy. Names of co-workers that I can remember off the top of my head are: Mick Glaze, Larry Sullivan, Bill Muncey, Carter, Fimple, and Woody. Like you I was assigned to the CBU shop and was loaned out to everybody else as needed. I will look up the Facebook Group too. I have a few pictures of life in the bomb dump. Etc. Thank you SO much for responding and for your info and suggestions. A1E fully loaded. Thanks! Ubon RTAFB was established in the 1950s. The Australian facilities were known as RAAF Ubon, and were designed and constructed by No. Phantoms phorever. [16], On 27 February 1968 the first prototype AC-130A Gunship II began operations from Ubon, destroying 9 trucks and 2 services areas in Laos on its first sortie. Thanks, Grant Hernandez. Bob Yarbrough came to my wedding in 76 , and spoke to once since then, havent been able to catch hold of him since, dont know about Shaw, wouldnt mind connecting with him. Major Mack speaks about the 552nd Airborne Early Warning Control Wing, at Ubon Air Base in Thailand. [1] It is in the city of Udon Thani in northeastern Thailand and is the main airport serving the city and province. I was a weapons mechanic with the 408th MMS when that happened. The pilot, Pilot Officer Mark McGrath was killed in the crash and a three-year-old Thai girl named Prataisre Sangdang later died from burns sustained in the accident. LOL. If anyone out there remembers me or those mentioned above please feel free to contact me. If anyone knew my father during that time I would love to hear from you. Also locations he worked, like where the bombs were etc. Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base, 1965-1974; Major USAF Unit: 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, 1965-1974. . [17][15]:105 By April 1969 the 16th SOS accounted for 44 percent of all trucks destroyed in Laos while flying only 3.7 percent of the sorties. Great stuff. I remember handlebar mustaches, Water Day, the Corsair Club, the 6 foot cobras in the arm/dearm area, rice bugs (100 baht an ammo box), Tet of both 68 and 69, Singha and Kratingtong beer (they said the latter was brewed in Bangkok with embalming fluid), khao phat, my short calendar, and the great feeling I had when that C130 lifted off headed for Don Muang in the spring of 69, mike, we were working in the transfer point at the same time, but your name doesnt ring any bells in my feeble memory. Photo by Dan Vinson, LM 66, UB, 8th SPS. Sappers hit Udorn Oct 3rd. Taken in: Thailand / Ubon Ratchathani / Pathum ( show map) Taken on: January 1, 1970. Just doesnt have the same flare. From March 1966 C-130A Project Blind Bat flareships of the 315th Air Division began operations over Laos from Ubon, increasing to 6 aircraft and 12 crews before their mission was superseded by newer systems in June 1970. A dog runs by us, a rifle shot barks at him and he folds up on the tarmac. I want to thank all of you guys who served with honor. Also welcome are family members including the Ubon Veterans legally married spouse,their children and grandchildren and the Ubon Vets brother or sister.If requesting members are accepted, they will be provided . Also did the 12 on 12 off 7 days a week routine. Lynn Young USAF. I always guessed they just wanted to get close to the action. Still growing your hair long? The RTAF 231 Squadron "Hunter" is assigned to Udorn, equipped with the Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet -A. Its not fair to single out any one specialty for special notice because each and everyone of you were an essential part of the team. I brought up some issues to my local va clinic to have a paper trail for when the va review my claim, ill have some va doctor medical proof of my contact with agent orange. Dayton Ohio Wright Patterson Air Force Base USA, Del Rio Texas Laughlin Air Force Base USA, Eglin Air Force Base Okaloosa County Florida USA, England United Kingdom Molesworth Airfield, Grand Forks Air Force Base North Dakota USA, Kharkov Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base (NKP) Thailand, Polebrook Northamptonshire England United Kingdom, U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base Thailand, Vandenberg AFB, California United States USA. There is no doubt NOAA had to hire 3 or 4 people to replace you over there. Col. Olds Base Commander, Humped the missiles to the A/C for Operation Bolo. The last scheduled F4 training flight occurred on 16 July 1974 and on 16 September the wing and most of its components moved without personnel or equipment to Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, where the wing absorbed resources of the 3d TFW that had moved without personnel or equipment to the Philippines. Anyone remember our duty position during attack,,on-base bomb dump , with no firearms issued, ha. Advanced Search | Any way all of his personal belongings have disappeared. Cope Tiger is an annual multinational exercise in the Asia-Pacific region that promotes closer relations and enables air force units in the region to sharpen air . I do remember the flares going up at night and the gunship flying over head checking out the perimeter. I spent all my time on the A/C-130s in 1970 . Never once did I see him get excited. There was another attack that no one has mentioned, I remember one night that there as a lot of small arms fire and several aircraft were damaged. I recently was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which I believe is service related due to the herbicides being used during my tour of duty there. The Print Shop is open! The enemy chose to attack and tried to kill American fighting men and destroy U.S. aircraft--and failed. He passed away last year. p.s. View Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base vintage historic HD stock video footage in Ubon Ratchathani Thailand, 1968. Privacy Policy2023 CriticalPast LLC. Pingback: Looking for her parents from the Vietnam War era in Ubon Ratchathani, can you help? Some places are mentioned within my pages but all are mentioned in one way or another through other blogs/webpages in the area. more Final approach cockpit view to runway 18 at U-Tapao Air Base in Thailand. (just learning at 68 how this thing works). 36; Nakhon Phanom AB runway No. Did your husband work in preload area (bomb dump) which i was not familiar with? Its a closed group open only to Ubon Vets. LOL.. The Laos border is about 60 kilometres (37 mi) directly east. google_ad_slot = "5169356608"; [28]:140. The facility is also used as a civil airport. There are a TON of sites for Veterans all over social media. I pushed the door a little to the right and got on the floor and began writing a totally scared and maybe last letter home,to my girl friend. Operations with the B-57G continued until April 1972, when they were moved to Clark Air Base in the Philippines to make room for the deployment of F-4E squadrons arriving from the United States. Historic HD videos of Udorn Air Force Base Thailand 1969 from CriticalPast are royalty-free and available for immediate download. The B52 base at Utapao, 90 miles southeast of Bangkok, was attacked Jan. 9, and three of the huge bombers were slightly damaged, according to official accounts. He had been reading through my various posts about Ubon Ratchathani at around the time of the Vietnam war (you can find all these posts grouped together here) and decided to make contact. That sound of the C130 of the C130 flying over head stuck in my head for a long time. I do still have many pictures from my tour to Ubon and also some from short hops to to other bases as well as my R&R to Bangkok and Pattau beach with a few of my buds. THE THAI RELATIVES KNOW VIRTUALLY NOTHING ABOUT FARANG PLACES EXCEPT BIG C, LOTUS AND ROBINSONS. Col. Robin Olds, 8th Tactical Fighter Wing commander, is carried off the airfield after successfully completing Operation Bolo Airmen Jan. 2, 1967. HH-43B with pilot 1st Lt. Sprague after return from the crash site, 13 March 1966 - photo collection Sprague. Thanks to John Bemiss for sharing those great, old photos! I found one person from the 460th AEMS in Saigon that remembered me being there but was hoping to have some additional backup when I file a claim for AO exposure, i went tdy to the same base in 69 no record can be found emagance that, I ran across some very interesting info linking TCE (Trike or Tri) trichloroethylene with kidney cancer, liver cancer, and Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. I am also looking for any vets at Ubon in 72-73 that worked on the F4 and the 130 as a aircraft HYDRAULIC mechanic. My AFSC was Life Support Systems and home base was Korat In late January or early February of 69 our squadron, the 469th, went TDY to Ubon for approximately 6 weeks while some repairs were done on our flight line and runways. Plotters marking board, scope operator, senior director and combat information sector controller at radar sets. F-4s and C-130 gun ships, also did some rigging on F-4s I was a/p augmentee and had to sit out on the perimeter about five or six times during my stay there Does anyone have a record of the augmentees during this time, as I have heart problems since I was 50 yrs. Tankers and other vehicles at the base. I have type 2 diabetes and I have filed a claim. [28]:134, From February to October 1967 EC-121 Warning Star aircraft of the College Eye Task Force were based at Ubon. Close to the hooches, the area was mowed and a little further out from the camp, maybe 70 yards or so, they sprayed out of 55 gallon drums with what looked like bung hole pumps.The heat of the day (98 105 degrees) and breezes carried the oily stench toward the hooches and, no doubt, some of that mist blew through the hooch screen half walls while we were out on the ramp during the day. 15; U-Tapao AB runway No. ECM shop Sept. 69-70. If they werent successful then we would have been issued ammo for our M16s. http://www.vspa.com/ub-bateman-sappers-1969-1970-1972.htm. Still a great view from up there but not open all night anymore. It was at night and when the shots and explosions were going off I jumped down from the cockpit of an F4 parked outside the revetments and hunckerd down under the left wing. Did not talk about it . My husband was stationed in Ubon from March 1963-March 1964 and has a lot of photos taken during that time. They flew the F-4C and D Phantom II's on various missions from CAP to CAS. 408th MMS Gun shop,9/69-70,,6/71-72. Must be after I left. Dave I was at Ubon at the time and remember the Egress guy was installing the rear seat and the seat fired taking him out with it. [3]:255 With the deployment of USAF fighters to Ubon, the unit also performed joint exercises and provided air defense for the USAF attack aircraft and bombers based at Ubon. I worked as a US Customs Liason with TMO at the Aerial Port. lol, Hello folks. tom@starkwood.com, Did you ever join the Ubon Closed Group FBook site and did you find a wind drift map for Ubon Royal Air Force Base? License Agreement | Col. Robin Olds checks munitions on his F-4C Phantom, Scat XXVII, prior to a mission. We were attacked twice by VC Sappers during that time period and probed several more times. I was part of the 408MMS, working in the Transfer Point (Reload/Preload) and Line Delivery (Cobra7) from approx. Great sitebrought back a lot of memories. Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base was the home of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing -"Wolfpack". The F-4D had improved radar-bombing capabilities and could deploy the AGM-62 Walleye television-guided bomb, but replaced the AIM-9 Sidewinder with the infra-red AIM-4 Falcon which proved to be inferior. I remember Davis well, he had us collect rice bugs on night shift when we werent loading. I hadn't seen . google_ad_height = 250; Those were the days. I have been having recurring skin cancer issues in the last year. Great pics of Ubon flight line, but where are the A/C-130s and 119s ? Crew ejected successfully, no injuries. Sets appears in: 1970 - Ubon Air Base (Spectre Gunships) Stats: 6,763 views / 1 comment. If you wont do it for yourselves then do it for your families. . I was at Ubon for both of the Sapper attacks working in Avionics. I remember the fellow loading the seat, and it blew him out and crew chief pulled the chute and covered him. For those of you who feel like your efforts werent noticed and appreciated let me assure you that they were by the guys whose job was to fly the missions. Rice bugs were something else, we had a line supervisor who had a bungalow and girlfriend down town so during brief down time from loading he had us collecting rice bugs that were attracted to the flight line lights. The construction of U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield began in October, 1965 and was completed slightly more than two years later. A pair of RF-4C aircraft flying overhead to commence landing at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base during Vietnam War. I remember most of the experiences shared here during that time. My crew loaded mainly the 25th but we loaded the others when needed. Thank you, too, phipson!! Go figure. Was in the 435th 7/67-7/68 and never saw napalm or A-1s in revetments. We definitely had more than 1 M16 on base because on another night we were alerted and told to assemble at the base theater where we were all issued M16s but no ammo. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Thanks. The RF-101s were sent to assist Royal Thai AF RT-33 aircraft in performing aerial recon flights over Laos. On 31 May 1962 the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) sent a detachment of eight CAC-27 Sabre fighters to Ubon RTAFB. Ubon RTAFB. Looking for anyone who worked in the munitions dump that was approximately 6 miles of base in the fall of 1967. Hi Craig, An aircraft flies over houses and trees in Thailand as it approaches runway number 5 at Ubon Air Base for landing. Ubon Air Base 1969 Photos - Mac McDaniel, Rich Jaslovsky 83rd RRSOU Det J Operations Det J Bunker Sang Seri Court 83rd RRSOU 1967 Photos - Mac McDaniel Ramasun Station Photos - Bob Baldwin Udon Photos - Bob Baldwin Antenna Array Perimeter His memory is shot too. the attack only a passing reference in articles about the sapper attack on Udorn. [14], In April 1966 4 AC-47 Spooky gunships were deployed to Ubon for interdiction operations over Laos. I believe I handled the raw material of A O while dis-assembling, cleaning and re-assembling the gun barrels on the C-130 Gun Ships. It was also the only USAF base that ran opposite direction, single runway, air traffic; landing runway 23, departing runway 05. I was stationed there 72-73 in the Air Force. Just wondering why this attack was not mentioned. [28]:115 Detachment 3 was inactivated in August 1974 with the winding down of base operations. Hi Bob, I love the first hand reports of these mortar attacks on the base. [18], On 22 July 1974, the 16th SOS was transferred to Korat RTAFB.[17]. . 408th MMS from Jan 68 through Mar 69. Just interested in knowing the details since it missed us at the gate by only 50 to 75 feet. EC-121 tail with Air Defense Command insignia. We were loading and had a break caught the very end of the show, Called your office the other day, fella said he had your desk, chair & phone for a couple years, so you must have retired. In June 1965, the 15th Tactical Fighter Wing deployed its 45th Tactical Fighter Squadron the first F-4C Phantom II unit in Southeast Asia to Ubon where they flew combat missions to North Vietnam. I worked in the Avionics Autopilot shop on the AC-130s and F4Ds from May 69 May 70 at Ubon. Contact us at rosiesbak@gmail.com please. THe first of several attacks on Ubon took place about 30 days after I returned to the states. Udon, Ubon and Utapao are three. We must know each other. 4. I was in the 408th MMS and assembled CBUs, Paveways, 105 Howitzer shells, napalm, etc., from June 71 72. What a great site. I SPENT A TOTAL OF 4 1/2 YEARS IN THAILAND. Thai air police controlled access to the bases, along with USAF Security Police, who assisted them in base defense using sentry dogs, observation towers, and machine gun bunkers. Buy HD video and archival still photo images of clip number 65675038902. So cool that he was involved with the construction of the golf course. Operating out of Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base (RTAFB) in northern Thailand, the 432nd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing (TRW) is probably one of the lesser known Air Force units that participated in the Vietnam War, despite the fact that for most of its existence at Udorn, it was unique among Air Force wings. I was on the top floor of the Ubon hotel recently for a cold one while the sun went down. Was from Miami FL. Airman R L Roberts/ WCS/ 1/69-1/70 Do you belong to Ubon Vets F/B group? not quite sure how this all works at this point.. am trying to figure out so as not to hog this sight with my drama.. Many memories of Ubon. Hide. 21; Korat AB runway No. google_ad_client = "ca-pub-0055504374659721"; Good to hear from you after 44 years! ASA units in Thailand, clarified by Gary Kay: The 5th RRU was there first, of course, and it morphed into the 83rd RRSOU, still in Bangkok. Gerry. Air start attempts unsuccessful. My memory is not so good anymore so names are very hard to come by. We were released several hours later and not given any further updates. Do you remember any names like John Butyler, Billy Checkout or Chuck Egner ? Additional Details No camera details . Joe my memory is not what it used to be but I do remember you and Mike Pruitt. 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