Flight Line - Takhli RTAFB from the Control Tower

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1969  - 355th Tac Fighter Wing

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Photo contributions by the following Takhli vets and friends are online in two forms. The Galleries will bring up images and captions in web page format. The other entries currently will display a directory listing the images. Click on any image to view and return using your browser's BACK button.

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- The 601st Photo Squadron Det 2 - We're fortunate to have four members of the 601st Photo Squadron onboard the Takhli roster; Jack Gurner, Dave Snow, John Evans and Steve Wilson. These four photo pros have contributed this collection of excellent  images documenting the aircraft, the base, the pilots and support troops and the people of Takhli village. If you enjoy the galleries - you might take a moment to acknowledge the contributors and their work at Takhli  - each gallery will include an email address.  The Jack Gurner Photo Gallery -  Jack was a photographer at Taklhi 69-70 and has a load of of photos from his tour and his work in the Photo Shop.  Great stuff and this is the tip of John's iceberg of images.  The 355th TFW highlighted - Thuds, EB-66's,  Col. Bo Bottomly.  It's all here. Dave Snow's Photo Gallery - Dave was also a photographer with the 601st Photo Squadron and offers his collection of photos -aircraft, Wing personnel, EOT flights, scenes from the base.  John Evans' Takhli Portfolio - John served with the 601st from Jan 69 to Oct 70.  The 601st Photo Techs were qualified combat photographers.  John had a total of 107 combat missions and five Air Medals when he left Thailand.  He was able to fly Thud, and EB-66 missions out of Takhli and logged about 70 OV-10A missions flying out of Ubon in a tour there from Oct 70 to Oct 71.  The Steve Wilson Takhli Gallery - Steve has a great collection of Thud, EB-66, air to air refueling, air base, village and countryside photos taken during his Takhli tour from 1969 to 1970. Nine webpages of photos.  Steve Wilson's Takhli Gallery II - A new set of photos from Steve's collection of Base and Village scenes Great flying and great photos - thanks to all of our Takhli Photo Techs Presenting Det 2, 601st Photo Flight as sketched by Dave Snow. Steve Wilson is on the stilts with a Graflex XL camera;  Dave Snow, front left, is being attacked by "Spyman" (real name Schneiderman) ; Jack Gurner is on the sign above "Det" ; John Evans with hair sticking up is on the front row and next to John is  Stewart Hurd with  the flat top and big glasses. From the 1969-1970 period, Takhli RTAFB.  Scan courtesy Steve Wilson  601st Photo Flight Website

And lots more of the good stuff from other Takhli Vets and some friends of Takhli
 

• Bill Brown's Old Timey Slide Show - Bill's collection of color slides taken "back in the day" - Sep 1968 to Sep 1969 when Bill was a Doppler tech at Takhli. Fifty-two images via 4 gallery pages. Great set of base, village and Thai shots.
• Norm Pelkey's Takhli Photos:1962 and 1963-The Early Days
• Don Ainsworth's Takhli Album Several pages of color photos from Don's Takhli Tour with "Prime Beef" from October 1965 to February 1966.
• Tim Stump's Punch Out Sequence - Dramatic series of five photos showing a 1969 low level ejection with pilot, Major Davey, coming safely down on the chute. Also a 333rd group photo in front of RK394 and great photo of Thuds on tanker. For more info on the punchout sequence visit Bob King's Wild Weasel website.
• Steve Lott's Photo Gallery - great shots of a 12 ship farewell flyover as the 355th TFW departed Takhli on 12 Oct 70.
• Famous Amos Parker's 9th TFS Deployment photos - you've read the book, now see the pictures of the 9th TFS Deployment from Holloman AFB to Takhli in 1972. SAC Does What?
• Steve Victor - collection of aerial Thud and KC-135 photos contributed by Steve. Shots taken by an F-105 pilot on a strike misson over Laos in 1968. 10 shot on 2 web pages.
• Mike Dunn's photo file - scenes from the base and village. I like the water buffalo as desktop wallpaper.
• Neil McCutchan's photos - area scenes - a reclining Buddha and other Thai historic shots
• Bob Freitag's EB-66 shots  - the Destroyer Rules!
• Gary Schrieber - in addition to several EB-66 photos from 1967 you view a few pages from the base newspaper, the Takhli Times.
• Baytown Bert Marshall's photo page Interesting collection of mostly off base photos. -
• Looper's photos - contributed by Takhli vet "Looper" Meyer.
• Jimmie Butler  - couple of nice shots of an EB-66 leading an F4 strike. Also the artwork in poster form from Jimmie's book A Certain Brotherhood
• Dick Anderson - nice and very early shots of the Takhli chapel and hootch row - circa 1963.
• Dick Williams - more from my own collection - very miscellaneous and in basic directory format 1669 to 1970 era
• Stephen Mock - photo in front of 38th AARSq -1968
  

Images within each gallery are copyrighted by the gallery contributor and www.takhli.org website

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Six Views of Takhli RTAFB - 1969

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Top Row:

• F-105D and F-105G  fighters of the 355th TFW. The Thuds were described as a "One Man Air Force" EB-66 -Electronics Warfare aircraft of the Wing's Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron

Bottom Row:

• Captured Soviet built 35 mm AAA - presented to the 355th by General Vang Pao ( more info)
• Cockpit view inside C-130 aircraft over northern Laos
• End of Tour flight celebration - Takhli 21 May 1970.  Capt. Don Nelson on right. Super Short Capt "Wee Willy" Williams with one day remaining at Takhli RTAFB. Aircraft was F-105G 63-8311.

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 15 oct 99
mod 13 dec 02