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Title:
Phan Rang Airfield Jan_1967-03
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Summary:
Phan Rang AB, RVN
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Title:
Phan Rang Base1
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Summary:
Base cantonement area where the base support was located.
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Title:
Phan Rang Hootch02_1967
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Summary:
Officer aircrew and support officer billets on the north side of the climb to the officers' mess.
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Title:
Phan Rang Hootch01_1967
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Summary:
Ol' Islander stayed in this one. The ceiling had aircrew signatures written in candle flame residue where an aircrew promised if he was shot down, he would return to erase his name.
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Title:
Phan Rang Hootch03_1967
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Summary:
A central shower provided for all the hootches. You had hot water if you took your shower early enough in the evening after solar heating of the water tank. Laundry was provided by hired Vietnamese maids.
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Title:
Phan Rang Aircrew Training02_1967
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Summary:
Recreational Training among aircrews.
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Title:
Phan Rang Aircrew Training03_1967
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Summary:
Leisure time at the Officers' Mess on top of a hill overlooking the flightline and parking ramps.
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Title:
Phan Rang Old Ramp1
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Summary:
Early 1967, the 8/13TBS airplanes were parked on the south PSP/AM ramp while the concrete ramp and revetments were being built across on the north side of the runway.
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Title:
Phan Rang Old Ramp2
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Summary:
PSP/AM parking ramp offered no protection from propagation of accidental detonations - like in Bien Hoa.
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Title:
Phan Rang Old Ramp3
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Summary:
Bomb preparations and loading were exposed possible detonation locations without protection.
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Title:
Phan Rang01_1967
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Summary:
In the Spring, 1967, the concrete ramps and revetments were opened for B-57 use.
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Title:
Phan Rang04_1967
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Summary:
Bomb preparations for loading. Loading Supervision on wheels (Faine Jackson).
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Title:
Phan Rang05_1967
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Summary:
Bomb preparations for loading.
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Title:
Phan Rang03_1967
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Summary:
Wing station loading using the MJ-1 Loader.
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Title:
Phan Rang06_1967
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Summary:
Rotary Bomb Bay door loading using the MJ-1 Loader. Some folks: Carl Walker (green T-shirt, back to camera), Roy Badger (green shirt, back to camera).
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Title:
Phan Rang10_1967
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Summary:
Bomb loading supervision and controller (Faine Jackson).
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Title:
Phan Rang11_1967
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Summary:
Bomb loading supervision (Faine Jackson) on two wheels.
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Title:
Phan Rang Red Cross01_1967
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Summary:
Red Cross volunteers provided cool drinks on hot afternoons.
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Title:
Phan Rang Red Cross02_1967
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Summary:
We always enjoyed the Red Cross Volunteers visits and wish to thank them for what they contributed. Ol'Islander has never been able to get in contact with them to say - Thank You, but we really appreciated what they did.
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Title:
Phan Rang Aircrew01_1967
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Summary:
Aircrew preparing for a mission.
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Title:
Phan Rang Aircrew02_1967
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Summary:
Another departure.
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Title:
Phan Rang Aircrew03_1967
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Summary:
Back seater was also mission essential.
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Title:
Phan Rang B57 Engine Start
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Summary:
Engine Start with Carts.
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Title:
Phan Rang Outbound
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Summary:
"Off we go, Into the wide blue yonder..." Outbound on a mission.
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Title:
Phan Rang B57 Bomb Run
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Summary:
On a bomb run.
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Phan Rang B57 Post Bomb Run
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Summary:
Post bomb run.
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Title:
Phan Rang Aircrew04_1967
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Summary:
Returning from a successful mission.
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Title:
Phan Rang Aircrew05_1967
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Summary:
Back seater is reliefed.
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Phan Rang F100
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Summary:
We shared the base with the host - F-100 wing.
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Phan Rang C130
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Summary:
Cargo runs.
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Title:
Phan Rang09_1967
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Summary:
New mission training - flying flares on night missions. Left to right: Mitchell Miles, Larry Lowe, Wistoski, Robert Nobles.
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Title:
Phan Rang08_1967
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Summary:
Load crew training on LUU 2s and SUU dispensers. Left to right - Larry Lowe, Wistoski, Mitchell Miles and Robert Nobles.
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Title:
Phan Rang07_1967
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Summary:
Load crew training on stuffing LUU 2 flares into SUU dispensers. Roy Badger looking on.
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Title:
Phan Rang Aircrew Training01_1967
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Summary:
Aircrew training on hazards of LUU 2s, dispensers and night blindness hazards.
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Title:
Phan Rang Flare Demonstration
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Summary:
Flare heat and brightness demonstration for aircrews. The photo was in bright daylight.
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Title:
Phan Rang02_1967
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Summary:
Loading stuffed SUU dispensers on wing stations.
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Title:
Phan Rang Aussie Cambera
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Summary:
Then the Aussies came with their Canberras and located at our end of the parking ramps - west end.
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Title:
Phan Rang Aussies02
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Aussie Canberras Arrival.
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Title:
Phan Rang Aussies01
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Summary:
Aussies - All present and accounted for.
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Title:
Phan Rang Aussies03
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Summary:
OlIslander with Canberra.
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Title:
Phan Rang Before the Bomb Shortage01
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Ammo Storage Area (M117s) before the bomb shortage.
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Title:
Phan Rang Before the Bomb Shortage03
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Ammo Storage Area (M117s) before the bomb shortage.
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Title:
Phan Rang Before the Bomb Shortage02
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Ammo Storage Area before the incendiary bombs shortage.
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Title:
Phan Rang Tab Dump
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Summary:
A test gone sour - Coca Cola dumped pallets of TAB on Phan Rang but no one bought it - they could not give it away so it ended up in the "bomb dump" as residue.
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Title:
Phan Rang USO Nancy Sinatra1
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USO and Nancy Sinatra.
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Title:
Phan Rang USO Nancy Sinatra05
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Summary:
USO and "These Boost Are Made For Walking."
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Title:
Phan Rang Town Street
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Summary:
Phan Rang - the town.
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Title:
Phan Rang Town Temple
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Temple in Phan Rang.
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Title:
Phan Rang Harvest Time
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Lastly, the children at harvest time.
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Title:
Dong_RVN_2013_05_21_04
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Summary:
RVN money - early version.
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Title:
Dong_RVN_2013_05_21_01
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Summary:
RVN money - later version (front).
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Title:
Dong_RVN_2013_05_21_02
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Summary:
RVN money - later version (rear).
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Title:
13BS Vietnam War Ceremony
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Summary:
Vietnam War Memorial Plaque Ceremony at the National Museum of the USAF - 2007
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Title:
13BS Vietnam Memorial Attendees_01
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Summary:
Vietnam War Memorial Plaque Ceremony at the National Museum of the USAF attendees - 2007
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Title:
13BS Vietnam Memorial Attendees_02
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Summary:
Vietnam War Memorial Plaque Ceremony at the National Museum of the USAF attendees - 2007
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Title:
13BS Vietnam Memorial Attendees_03
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Summary:
Vietnam War Memorial Plaque Ceremony at the National Museum of the USAF attendees - 2007
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Title:
13BS Vietnam Memorial Plaque
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Summary:
Vietnam War Memorial Plaque at the National Museum of the USAF - 2007
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Title:
13BS Old & New Aircrews
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Summary:
Old and new aircrews - B-57 and the B-2. The 13BS is now assigned to the sole wing of B-2s at Whiteman AFB, MO.
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