Takhli Thailand Proudly Served - Navy COTTON Cua Viet was under mortar

Cua Viet was under mortar

During the months and years that followed

one of those battalions was the 1st Battalion (Mechanized)

and the fifteenth

2245°E) near the Cham Museum began operation in November 1965 off-loading LCU's and LST's

Takhli Thailand Proudly Served - Navy COTTON Cua Viet was under mortarTakhli 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