Photos The war in Laos & Cambodia.

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[ao_sepia]

some pics had thai mercenary

us cia supported laos early very poorly,send t-28 and garrand and carbine,but supported khmer,send a-1 and m-16 to all uniform!
but soviet,warsaw pacts and chicom send ak,vz and rpg to laos communist and nva,laos army use garrand and carbine flight with ak,vz and rpg in early wartime!

 

[Josiah]

Great thread! It is nice to see photos of this lesser-known conflict and this thread will make a great companion to this book that I just bought 2 weeks ago about the CIA's war in Laos.

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[RL64RL]

Awesome thread. Really enjoyed the pics, especially some never before seen (for me) of the Raven FACs!! Thank you.

RL

 

[uktabber]

YES, Awesome pics mate.....love the look back to those times, keep them coming!!

 

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1973
Air America C-123 flying overhead.

 

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1968
Air America pilot Brownie Coble (foreground) inspecting a North Vietnamese Colt biplane manufactured in Russia shot down by an Air America helicopter over Phou Pha Thi (LS-85).
The remains of the airplane were airlifted from the crash site to Na Khang.

 

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May 1972
Hmong refugees from Kio Nya (ca. TG 0685) are boarding a Royal Lao Air Force Curtiss C-46 for evacuation to Ban Xon (LS-272).

 

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1968
Striped Hmong civilians boarding an Air America H-34 for evacuation.

 

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1971
An Air America pilot is chatting with Robert Wofford as he climbs out of his Sikorsky UH-34D helicopter on the high ground at That Luang during the flooding in Vientiane.

 

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November 1971
Lahu refugees gathered around an Air America H-34 helicopter at Muong La.

 

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1967
Air America pilots enter and leave the Air America operations building in Nha Trang. A couple of cooks are working outside the left end of the building.

 

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1971
A passenger ducks under the rotor blades to board a helicopter on the high ground at That Luang during the flooding in Vientiane.

 

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1967
An aerial view of the city of Nha Trang on the Vietnamese coast. The white building on top of the hill on the left is probably the missile site.

 

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1962
Edgar (Pop) Buell (USAID Area Coordinator, Xieng Khouang; on the right) and an Air America Helio pilot surrounded by a group of Striped Hmong people.