Photos The war in Laos & Cambodia.

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1962
Air America C-123 shot down by Neutralists over the Plain of Jars.

 

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1968
Air America Captain Robert Wofford completing paperwork in the cockpit of a DHC-4 Caribou in Vientiane following a flight.

 

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1969
An Air America de Havilland DHC-4 Caribou returning to base at sunset.

 

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July 1969
Bags of rice being unloaded from an Air America H-34 helicopter for distribution to Hmong refugees at Phou Khao Khouay.

 

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1966
An Air America Helio Courier parked on a pad in South Vietnam, probably at Tan Son Nhut Air Base.

 

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January 1966
Air America H-34 helicopter picking up a crashed Air America Helio Courier.

 

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January 1972
Air America C-130 landing at Ban Xon. The small building with an air conditioner installed in the wall was the USAID office at the Ban Xon refugee relief center for northeastern Laos.

 

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1967
Air America Captain Robert Wofford stands beside a Helio Courier aircraft in Vientiane.

 

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1971
A Continental Air Services Pilatus Porter PC-6 lands on the ramp at Vientiane's Wattay Airport. When the entire airport, including the ramp, flooded, fixed-wing aircraft operations were moved to Udorn, Thailand.

 

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December 1968
Air America H-34 helicopter at Ban Thalat military outpost with machine gun.

 

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1968
A Continental Air Services Porter PT-6 touching down on a dirt strip upcountry.

 

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September 1972
Air America H-34 helicopter approaching a military outpost overlooking the village of Pak Ou where the Nam Ou River (on the left) enters the Mekong River (on the right).

 

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February 1966
Air America helicopter landing.

 

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1969
Air America pilot next to a large French cadastral marker.

 

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May 10, 1968
Robert Wofford's Helio Courier is transported by crane at Tan Son Nhut Air Base after a power failure resulted in a hard landing, collapsing the gear.

 

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1968
Air America Captain Robert Wofford and the instrument panel of a DHC-4 Caribou.

 

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1966
Robert Wofford, Don Fell, and an unidentified crew member next to an Air America C-123 aircraft parked at Wattay Airport in Vientiane.

 

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March 1966
Air America H-34 helicopter pilot Sam Jordon (on the left) strapping a crashed Helio Courier airplane to an H-34.

 

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1969
Soldiers preparing site for an Air America H-34 helicopter to sling a large stone jar, with Win McKeithen (USAID Refugee Operations Officer) on the right.

 

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1971
Passengers, including Robert Wofford and his 14-year-old daughter Terri* (wearing white boots near the aircraft), arrive at Vientiane's Wattay Airport on an Air America C-46 flight from Bangkok. (*From his first marriage)