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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;longnine009, post: 3276543, member: 1886&quot;][USER=32619]@Jwt708[/USER] Got a Vietnam Era&nbsp; U.S&nbsp; Air Force token in the mail&nbsp; yesterday yeah!</p><p><br /></p><p>Takhli Air Force base Thailand operated jointly by US and Thailand Air Forces.</p><p>Cunningham TI160b 10c C/A, 18mm 3.4grms, plated brass. Takhli was home to the F-100 Super Sabre, used for&nbsp; photo reconnaissance as well as bombing missions and the&nbsp; F105 Thunderchief which replaced the bombing role of the F-100. The Thunderchief was nick named the &quot;Thud&quot; and not for good reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also operating out of Takhli were B-66 Destroyers that were modified; some for photo Recon, some for</p><p>Electronic warfare and some for signal Intel later called Elint (electronic intelligence) The B-66 was the same aircraft that Douglas was selling to the Navy as the A-3 &quot;whales forever&quot; Skywarrior. Eventually F-105 Wild Weasels we&#039;re operating out Takhli. They were modifie to have two seats. So now the pilot could just fly the aircraft and an electronic warfare officer in the back did everything else. Supposedly they were very successful which is in sharp contrast to their role as a fighter-bomber.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like the FB-111&#039;s&nbsp; they were asking too much of the Thunderchiefs.&nbsp; It was designed to fly very fast, low to the ground and in a straight line and then go vertical over the target and drop a tactical nuke from a parachute. No matter what they called it the F-105 was a short-range penetration bomber. It was not designed to do crazy maneuvers to evade missiles.</p><p><br /></p><p>I watched a Discovery Channel&nbsp; video about the F-105 on YouTube yesterday. It&#039;s a good video in the sense that they had some very candid&nbsp; comments from F-105 pilots who flew over there. But it is not a happy video. One hundred and twenty F-105&nbsp; pilots were killed and many were captured. At one point there were over 200 F-105 pilots in the Hanoi Hilton.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]0KTe4lHLlcs[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]865356[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]865357[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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