C-130 Airlift in Vietnam

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Vietnam and Cambodia

• Google Map of Vietnam Airfields
• In-Country Checkout
• Windmill Taxi and Buddy Starts
• First Short Field Landings
• Refugees and Aussies
• Tan Son Nhut
• Cash and a Poker Game
• Flying in Monsoon Weather
• A Long Day
• Duong Dong
• Gripe, Gripe, Gripe
• A Crash Landing and a Mugging
• Under Attack at Bien Hoa
• Inflight Engine Shutdown
• Hot Brake at Long Thanh North
• Tire Explosion at Bien Hoa
• Mortars During a Buddy Start
•    Lam Son 719:
• - Airfields Reactivated
• - Aerial Port Heroes at Danang
• - Missions to Quang Tri
• - Missions to Dong Ha
• - Missions to Khe Sanh
• A Bad Landing
• Attack of the Ice Locker
• Friendly Fire at Katum
• Flying with Squadron Commanders
• Kontum and Pleiku
• AWOL, GCA, and USO
• A C-123 Instructor Becomes a Copilot
• Quang Tri Revisited
• Ban Me Thout and Tuy Hoa
• It Takes All Kinds to Make a World
• Mechanical Problems
• SNAFU at Tan Son Nhut
• Long Nights

Thailand

• 2,000-Mile Trip to a Grass Strip
  
• A Typhoon and a Flameout
• Air Evac

Taiwan (CCK)

• Sach
• Check Ride to Vietnam
• Cubi Point
• Paperwork
• Waiting for a Check Flight
• Returning from the USA to CCK
• A "Hymn" to the Wing Commander
• First Air Medal
• Indonesia?

Training

• Undergraduate Pilot Training
• Flying the C-141
• Guantanamo Bay
• Survival Training
• C-130 School
• To North Carolina
• Replacement Training Unit
• Alerts and Exercises

Miscellany

• Contact Alan
• The Romance of the Air
• Other Web Sites of Interest
• Sources

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