Takhli Thailand Proudly Served - Navy COTTON and the fifteenth

and the fifteenth

the 6234th Air Base Squadron was organized at Korat as a permanent unit under the 2d Air Division to support the TDY fighter units and their operations

During the months and years that followed

Cua Viet was under mortar

[3] The Canberra was used extensively during the Vietnam War in a bombing capacity

Takhli Thailand Proudly Served - Navy COTTON and the fifteenthTakhli 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