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Return to Article Details A Not So Silent Partner: Thailand's Role in Covert Operations, Counter-Insurgency, and the Wars in Indochina A Not So Silent Partner: Thailand's Role in Covert Operations, Counter-Insurgency, and the Wars in Indochina Their primary mission was to fight North Vietnamese guerrilla forces taking refuge in Laos. OF THAILAND, I967-1972* / George J. Viksnins* . The following data is taken from what appears to be a working paper summary of the United States Operations Mission (USOM) in Thailand dated 1968, found at the Cornell University Library "Pamphlet HC Thailand 370" 3-1924-007-619-574. The C-130s were withdrawn in late-1971 but returned in April 1972. These small detachments received logistical support from their home bases outside of Southeast Asia. Flights. By early 1962, about 60 Thais had enlisted in Lao units; all on the CIA payroll. VC-47A 084 of Air America crashed on landing on a flight from Tan Son Nhut.[30]. In July 1968 three groups of Thai special forces were sent into Laos to conduct long-range reconnaissance missions. U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield is a military airfield of the Royal Thai Navy (RTN) approximately 140 kilometres (87mi) southeast of Bangkok in the Ban Chang District of Rayong Province near Sattahip on the Gulf of Thailand. Some of the Vietnamese wanted to move to communist North Vietnam, but they were not necessarily communist sympathizers. Chonburi Province. Although Thailand was an active participant in the Vietnam War, with a token ground force deployed to the South Vietnam as well as involved in the largely secret civil war in Laos, the presence and the visibility of USAF aircraft near its capital city was causing a fair degree of political embarrassment for Thailand's military government. In the meantime, American technicians and engineers worked on improvements at Thai air bases. On 19 December the Bangkok press reported that some twenty government party members of the Thai parliament had signed a letter to the prime minister urging the withdrawal of Thai troops from South Vietnam. Those bombers were not allowed to strike North Vietnam directly. Thai forces were generally respected by their American allies and inflicted on their PAVN opponents several times the losses they took; Thai media would often report on the war in terms of enemy killed, similar to American media. Some 80 percent of the American airstrikes launched against North Vietnam and its guerrilla camps in the region came from those air bases. (During the deployment of the F-111s three crashed soon after arriving at Takhli and the F-111 fleet was grounded to investigate the problem). Under Operation Arc Light, wing bombers flew over 35,000 strikes over South Vietnam from 1967 to 1970.
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