UDORN Thailand 432nd Tac Recon Wing - White COTTON During the months and years

During the months and years that followed

started operations from Udorn on 11 September 1955 with the arrival of three C-46s delivering food and emergency aid into Indochina

Con Thien (Vietnamese: Cồn Tiên

During the Vietnam War the area around the mountain was very active as the Ho Chi Minh Trail ended a few kilometers west across the Cambodian border

UDORN Thailand 432nd Tac Recon Wing - White COTTON During the months and yearsUdorn RTAFB was established in the 1950s. The civil war inside Laos and fears of it spreading into Thailand led the Thai government to allow the United States to use covertly five Thai bases beginning in 1961 for the air defense of Thailand and to fly reconnaissance flights over Laos. Udorn was one of those bases. Under Thailand's "gentleman's agreement" with the US, RTAF bases used by the US Air Force (USAF) were considered RTAF bases and were