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	B-57 with Republic of Vietnam Air Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The United States had initially been reluctant to equip the Vietnamese Air Force with jet aircraft, since this would be a technical violation of the Geneva Accords and might further escalate the war.
		Vietnamese crews suddenly began to complain of various illnesses, which grounded many trainees and brought their training to a standstill.
		The death of Major Bien, who was well-liked and well-respected by both Vietnamese and Americans, resulted in a complete loss of any incentive for the Vietnamese crewmen to stay with the B-57, and from this point on there was very little Vietnamese activity in the B-57 program.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher2/b57_11.html (588 words)

	Vietnamese Air Force Technical Training, 1970-1971 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		If Air Force assistance was to be effectively provided, technical training of allied air forces would assume even greater importance than it had in the past.
		A conference convened at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, in June of that year identified the courses to be established in South Vietnam and the equipment required to support those courses.
		In July 1971 the director of training of the Air Force Advisory Group (AFGP) saw the need to provide the VNAF with the capability to replace pilot losses as the greatest challenge to self-sufficiency yet to be met.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1973/jan-feb/deberry.html (2765 words)

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		The North Vietnamese Air Force, flying from airfields which Washington officials decided should not be hit because of their location in the heavily populated Hanoi-Haiphong area, was not a major threat to USAF pilots during 1965.
		Admiral Sharp assigned interdiction of the railroads to the Air Force.
		Air Force F-105's, F-4's, A-7's, AC-130's and B-52's were joined by Navy and Marine aircraft in pounding the enemy daily between the 20th parallel in the North and the battle lines inside South Vietnam.
	www.hpssims.com /Pages/Products/ModAir/WOV/Historical.doc (6624 words)

	Clyde North Aeronautical Preservation Group - CNAPG.
		The aircraft was acquired by the Tanzanian Air Force and reserialed as JW9013.
		The aircraft was acquired by the Omani Air Force and reserialed as 804.
		The aircraft was acquired by the Sultan of Muscat and Omans Air Force and re-serialed as 805.
	www.cnapg.org /Caribou.htm (8093 words)

	Air Force Magazine
		The Vietnamese Air Force was flying 70 percent of the air combat operations.
		Wherever the invasion force went, it was accompanied by mobile air defenses—23 mm and 37 mm antiaircraft guns mounted on rubber-tired trailers—as well as the SA-7s.
		The NVA force was supported by big 130 mm guns, firing from 12 miles to the north at Dong Ha, as well as by smaller artillery closer by.
	www.afa.org /magazine/Dec2004/1204sam.asp (3197 words)

	VNAF Postal History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The key to identifying a Vietnamese Air Force cover is the term "Khong Quan" (abbreviated "KQ"), which means "air force" in Vietnamese.
		Vietnamese military covers usually offer little beyond a sender or recipient's name and a KBC ("Khu Buu Chinh" or military postal zone) number, so it's a treat to find a cover with this much information.
		This cover was sent 14 September 1974 by a member of the 7th Marine Battalion at KBC 3340, abbreviated "TD7 TQLC," to an NCO Trainee at the Air Force General Headquarters served by KBC 3011 in Tan Son Nhut.
	www.imnahastamps.com /military/vnaf/identification.cfm (908 words)

	Laos - Lao People's Air Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In 1975 the LPA took possession from the Royal Lao Air Force of an inventory of 150 United States-made aircraft ranging from T-28 ground attack to UH-34 helicopters.
		Laotian air force officers of promise were sent to schools in Vietnam for specialized training.
		Together, the Soviets and Vietnamese constructed a large air force base at Muang Phônsavan on the Plain of Jars, 240 kilometers north of Vientiane, and rebuilt the former French air base at Xénô, near Savannakhét.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-7897.html (393 words)

	Air Force Magazine
		On Oct. 11, 1961, President Kennedy directed, in NSAM 104, that the Defense Secretary “introduce the Air Force ‘Jungle Jim’ Squadron into Vietnam for the initial purpose of training Vietnamese forces.” The 4400th was to proceed as a training mission and not for combat at the present time.
		In dispatching the air commandos to South Vietnam, the United States was violating the Geneva Accords of 1954 that established the two Vietnams.
		It is the heritage of the air commandos.
	www.afa.org /magazine/Dec2005/1205farmgate.asp (3101 words)

	THE AIR FORCE IN VIETNAM: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Futrell surveys the cautious evolution of Air Force activity from the introduction of a tactical air control unit, the first permanent duty status unitin Vietnam, in October 1961, through expansion of several diversified missions.
		Futrell is obviously sympathetic with the Air Force's frustration with the Kennedy administration hesitancies and the tribulations of working with the inchoate Vietnamese Air Force.
		Meanwhile, the Air Force sought a greater role in the American command structure and in policy formation.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1983/Jan-Feb/dunn.html (2516 words)

	Kirtland Air Force Base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The 377th Air Base Wing was first activated as the 377th Combat Support Group (CSG) on April 8, 1966, and assigned to Seventh Air Force, the air arm of Military Assistance Command-Vietnam (MACV).
		The wing’s mission is to “provide world-class nuclear surety, expeditionary forces and support to base operations.” Commensurate with its most recent activation, the 377 ABW was assigned to Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) through its parent organization, Space and Missile Systems Center, headquartered at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California.
		Air Base Wing as the Air Force's premier munitions storage and maintenance unit.
	www.kirtland.af.mil /organizations/377ABW/HistorianOffice/lineage.htm (1473 words)

	Escape to U Taphao
		But the Republic of Vietnam Air Force had grown to the fourth largest in the world, from 482 aircraft in 1969 to 2,276 in 1973.
		Colonel Harold R. Austin, commander of the U.S. Air Force 635th Combat Support Group at U Taphao, was in some ways prepared for the problems he faced on the morning of April 29, 1975.
		When the U.S. Embassy in Thailand found out about the F-5s that were given to the Thai air force and the movement of A-ls, Drummond and Youngblood were returned to their regular duties, and the remaining A-1s stayed at U Taphao.
	www.airspacemag.com /ASM/Mag/Index/1997/DJ/etut.html (4016 words)

	B-52 Project Delta
		Air Force cargo ships moved the unit to and from the operational area, and Air Force Controllers assisted teams, identified targets, and made effective use of Air Force, Navy and Marine tactical air support.
		The L 19s (not sure if the Air Force 0-1Fs were the same as the L 19, but they looked like it) were used when the first FACs from the U. Air Force flew missions supporting the Project.
		Vietnamese Air Force elements supported Delta from its beginning until the end of 1965 using H-34s.
	www.projectdelta.net /aviation.htm (2079 words)

	Vietnamese Air Force - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		The vietnamese air force has Mig-21 fighters, Su-22, Su-27, and L39 in their inventory.
		flying in the Vietnamese air force is not like in the US military where you just sign up in the air force and if you have skill you'll be able to fly an airplane.
		The Vietnamese Air Force is not really that bad, last year Vietnam ordered 4 new Su-30MK from Russia and there are plans to purchase 12-24 Sukhois (according to Russian sources), plus, the air force have signed a deal with the Indians to upgrade to MiG-21 fleet up MiG-21UPG standard.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=12779 (888 words)

	Vietnamese Air Force Museum in Hanoi
		Three Russian designed MiG fighters occupy pride of place near the entrance to the Vietnamese Air Force Museum in Hanoi - a MiG 19 "farmer" in the foreground of this photo, with a MiG 15 "fagot" and a MiG 21 "fishbed" behind it.
		These aircraft were not only captured intact at the end of the Vietnam war, they were incorporated into the Vietnamese Air Force and used in battle, first against the remnants of the South Vietnamese military, and then during Vietnam's war against the government of Pol Pot in Cambodia.
		They're all in Vietnamese Air Force colors and most of them include descriptive plates of how they were used after capture.
	www.richard-seaman.com /Aircraft/Museums/VietnameseAirForce (377 words)

	Viet Nam Security Police Association K-9 Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		During the Vietnam War, the defense of Air Force bases mirrored the conflict itself: There was no rear echelon once the entire country became a battlefield.
		Air Force bases relatively, unaffected by ground forces in past wars, were no longer considered safe havens.
		Bien Hoa Air Base, located 15 miles north of Saigon, was the first U.S. air base in Vietnam to taste the damage a small, well-trained force can inflict.
	www.vspa.com /k9 (789 words)

	John Daniel Lavelle, General, United States Air Force
		When the U.S. Air Force was established as a separate Service in 1947, he was one of the two Air Force officers who negotiated with all seven Army Technical Services and wrote the agreements for the division of assets and the operating procedures to be effected during the buildup of the Air Force.
		As director, he was principal backup witness in presenting and defending Air Force programs to the congress after such programs had been approved by the secretary of the Air Force and the secretary of defense.
		The Air Force inspector general (IG) flew to Saigon to investigate the matter and confirmed that "irregularities existed in some of 7th Air Force's operational reports." General Lavelle immediately stopped all strikes in question and assigned three men to find a way to continue the protective-reaction sorties but report them accurately.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /jlavelle.htm (4232 words)

	Decorated AF Officer Killed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		SAIGON (AP) --A highly decorated U.S. Air Force veteran of World War II and the Korean War was killed Thursday with a South Vietnamese general when their helicopter crashed in the Mekong Delta.
		The American officer was Col. Robert Sowers, 49, chief U.S. Air Force adviser to the Vietnamese Air Force in South Vietnam's southernmost Military Region 4, the Air Force said.
		The crash occurred when their South Vietnamese UH1 helicopter was trying to lift out a light observation plane at Binh Thuy.
	www.thebattleofkontum.com /stars/040.html (410 words)

	Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum - Savannah, GA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This Russian-built MiG-17 bears the distinctive insignia and camouflage pattern of the North Vietnamese Air Force.
		In 1962 the Air Force adopted a ground attack version of the F-4 after it had easily outperformed its F-106 in head-to-head competition.
		Manufactured by McDonnell Aircraft and delivered to the Air Force in 1965, this F-4C Phantom served at various Air Force and Air National Guard units in the United States until it was retired in 1987.
	www.mightyeighth.org /exhibits_collections/aircraft_on_exhibit.htm (401 words)

	US Air Force Military Biographies: Major General James H. Watkins
		From June 1950 to June 1954, General Watkins was assigned to Headquarters U.S. Air Force in the office of the Assistant for Atomic Energy where he was associated with the development of nuclear weapons.
		General Watkins then was assigned to Headquarters U.S. Air Forces in Europe as an operations staff officer, then executive officer to the deputy chief of staff for operations.
		He was transferred to Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, in August 1961, as commander of the 3510th Flying Training Group and in August 1963 was appointed deputy commander of the 3510th Flying Training Wing.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0RBE/is_2004_Annual/ai_n8574576 (463 words)

	Airpower Doctrine - Vietnamese Conflict (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		These successes suggest that military doctrine should be structured so that air power is used in conjunction with other forces in fast and dramatic moves which give no opportunity for the principle of substitution to come into play.
		The Vietnamese Air Force, 1951-1975, An Analysis of Its Role in Combat, by William W. Momyer, Gen, USAF, Ret.
		The debate over the efficacy of air interdiction is active and relevant today for historians of aerial warfare, for those charged with the development of military doctrine, and in the realm of national security policy formulation.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/apty/apy7bib.htm (2235 words)

	NATIONAL MUSEUM of NAVAL AVIATION - COLLECTIONS - AIRCRAFT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		During the evacuation of all United States military forces from Saigon in 1975, a South Vietnamese Air Force major took off from Con Son Island in an O-1with his wife and five children crammed in the small cabin.
		With enough gas to remain in the air for only one more hour, the pilot spotted the aircraft carrier Midway (CVA 41) and by means of a dropped note requested permission to land on board.
		The ship's commanding officer ordered the deck to be cleared and brought a Vietnamese interpreter to the island to communicate with the pilot by radio.
	broadcast.illuminatedtech.com /display/story.cfm?bp=92&sid=7975 (372 words)

	Vietnamese Air Force
		However it turns out that the weight of the fuel in the tank made the plane unstable, so it had to be reduced in size by a third.
		The tank also forced the removal of the rear cockpit panels and made the pilot's rearward view even worse than it had previously been.
		This was the successor to the similar looking Ka-25 "Hormone" which you can see on the page describing Russian helicopters at the Vietnamese Air Force museum in Hanoi.
	www.richard-seaman.com /Aircraft/Misc/VietnameseAirForce (750 words)

	Woman killed after Vietnamese Air Force jet hits house (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		An elderly woman was killed after a Vietnamese Air Force training jet crashed into her home, police said Wednesday.
		The Russian-built YAK 52 plane, which was carrying two pilots, suffered engine failure and ploughed into the house in Suoi Lau village in the central province of Khanh Hoa on Tuesday.
		The pilots were based at an Air Force training school in the coastal resort town of Nha Trang.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040310044557.6ftepd2l.html (143 words)

	Pope Air Force Base Early Expansion MPS -- Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms: A National Register of Historic ...
		Pope Air Force Base (AFB) in Fayetteville, North Carolina, has played a leading role in the development of U.S. air power.
		Airlifts of men and materials were sent from Pope AFB to Florida in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Wing received the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award in 1961 and 1963 for assistance to the Vietnamese Air Force.
		Today Pope Air Force Base is home to the 43rd Airlift Wing and two tenant units: the 23rd Fighter Group and the 18th Air Support Operations Group.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/aviation/pop.htm (770 words)

	North Viet Air War Book
		Due to a quirk of fate, as a Vietnamese linguist I was "loaned" to the USAF in 1971-73 and became familiar with the "Khong Quan Nhan Dan Viet Nam" or Vietnamese Peoples' Air Force.
		They were not slouches, and the air war was not as one sided as some accounts would make it seem.
		As he notes in the foreword, this is not a balanced accounting of how the air war in South East Asia was fought; rather it is a literal translation and accounting of the VPAF side of the story with their descriptions of dog fights and accounts intertwined in the text.
	www.kitreview.com /reviews/vietnamcs_1.htm (759 words)

	Roswell Daily Record News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Schnucker was born Jan. 10, 1935, in Waterloo, Iowa, to the Rev. Felix and Joe Schnucker.
		Padre Pilot Training at Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock was Schnucker’s next stop in 1961; it was there where he trained to be a pilot.
		Schnucker was invited to the Vietnamese Air Force where he flew missions as a fighter.
	www.roswell-record.com /archives/061002/news02.html (1034 words)

	469th TFS Operations, Leaflet Drop - US Air Force Museum Vietnam History Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Psychological operations were an important part of the plan to eliminate the aggression of North Vietnam against South Vietnam while attempting to minimize civilian casualties.
		The program was based on the successful program from the Korean War era resulting in the defection of a North Korean pilot and the acquisition of a MiG-15 - this aircraft is on display at the USAF Museum.
		Operation FAST BUCK, an operation proposed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) in November 1966, was for the purpose of inducing the defection of North Vietnamese pilots.
	www.wpafb.af.mil /museum/history/vietnam/469th/p47.htm (1244 words)

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