Photos The war in Laos & Cambodia.

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1968
This candid photo was taken when Air America Captain Robert Wofford looked up as another aircraft was taxing by and responded to a wave from its copilot.

 

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1968
Captain Robert Wofford beside an Air America DHC-4 Caribou in Vientiane before a flight.

 

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1969
This painting by Terry Wofford depicts an Air America Helio landing on a slick dirt strip during a monsoon downpour.
Artist Terry Wofford's birth name is Gilbert.

 

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ebruary 1971
Paramilitary soldier standing by Air America PC-6 Pilatus Porter short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft parked on the runway at LS-322.

 

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An Air America UH-1B about to take off from an ADC (Auto-Défense de Choc) base.

 

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December 1966
From left to right: Captain Reed, Stacy Lloyd (US foreign service officer), Don Sjostrom (USAID Refugee Operations Officer; killed in a communist attack at Na Khang in January 1967), and Mike Lynch (CIA case officer) next to an Air America Helio Courier.

 

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Robert Wofford arrives in Vientiane, Jan, 1966.

 

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

 

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March 1966
Air America plane (slightly visible) airdropping ammunition to Khmu' Auto Defense de Choc (ADC) soldiers and Major Xieng Man Noi, their commander, at a mountainous village airstrip.

 

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March 1966
Air America C-123 Fairchild Provider dropping ammunition for the nearby Lao soldiers' encampment in an old French-era fort.

 

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January 1972
Air America C-123 air dropping supplies to a military outpost.

 

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1970
Laotian passengers gather with their luggage at the tailgate of an Air America Caribou.

 

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1969
Refugee passengers gather beside an Air America DHC-4 Caribou for a morning flight out of Sam Thong. Others crowd around the supply hangar and buildings in the background.

 

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1968
Air America Captain Robert Wofford doing paperwork in the left, or captain's, seat of a DHC-4 Caribou.

 

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August 1971
Rice in 100-kilogram bags being loaded onto an Air America Fairchild C-123 plane for delivery to Ban Xon, USAID's refugee center in northeastern Laos.

 

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1968
Air America Porter flying near Route 6 underwater bridge east of Na Khang.

 

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1967
A U.S. Army Mohawk aircraft (dark green) is parked beside an Air America Helio in Cần Thơ (as correctly spelled in Vietnamese).

 

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1967
The Bien Hoa Bridge crosses the Mekong River to Saigon with Bien Hoa to the right. Tan Son Nhut Air Base is under the clouds, top right. The Mekong River flows from China through Laos, e.g., and eventually Vietnam to the South China Sea.

 

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1967
Landing on a road at Sông Bé approximately 50 miles north of Saigon. The “runway” which ran right up to the building at the end was on the right side of a grass center divider with ground traffic using the left side.

 

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November 1971
Lahu men unloading refugee supplies from an Air America H-34 helicopter. Village houses are in the background.