Takhli Thailand Proudly Served - White COTTON Participating American aircraft have included

Participating American aircraft have included the A-10 Thunderbolt II

C-130H Hercules airlift aircraft and HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters

000 civilians and prisoners of war

9 mi) from North Vietnam in Gio Linh District

Takhli Thailand Proudly Served - White COTTON Participating American aircraft have includedTakhli 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