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    Chu Lai Air Base was a military airport in Chu Lai, Vietnam, operated by the United States Marine Corps between 1965 and 1970. It was located near Tam...
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    Chu Lai Base Area (also known as Chu Lai Combat Base or simply Chu Lai or Kỳ Hà) is a former U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam...
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    the site of the Chu Lai Open Economic Zone (Vietnamese: Khu Kinh Tế Mở Chu Lai). Chu Lai was a United States Marine Corps military base from 1965 to 1970...
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    located in the Chu Lai Open Economic Zone, Núi Thành district. The airfield was originally established in the Vietnam War, as Chu Lai Air Base, by the United...
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    Viet Cong (VC) 1st Regiment to nullify their threat to the vital Chu Lai Air Base and Base Area and ensure that its powerful communication tower remained...
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    departed Vietnam while the withdrawal of Marine Aircraft Group 13 from Chu Lai Air Base saw the relocation of VMFA-115 and VMA-311 to Da Nang AB as part of...
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    headquarters at Da Nang Air Base.: 236  7 May Marine forces land at Chu Lai to secure the area for construction of an air base.: 236  9 May - 1 June Construction...
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    district. Núi Thành is also the home of Chu Lai Airport which was renovated from the abandoned Chu Lai Air Base from the Vietnam War. As of 2015, the airport...
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    Iwakuni, Japan. In March 1969, the squadron deployed to MAG 13 at Chu Lai Air Base, Vietnam, supporting ground operations in I Corps. They returned to...
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    of Air Force personnel while protesting their detainment at Empire Range along the Panama Canal. Task Force 2-Panther successfully established a base camp...
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    the squadron flew more than 25,000 combat hours out of Chu Lai Air Base and Da Nang Air Base, and employed more than 100 million pounds of ordnance in...
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    Skyhawk service. In May 1965 the squadron, now flying A-4Es, deployed to Chu Lai Air Base, South Vietnam and on 2 June, they conducted their first combat mission...
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    free to manoeuvre his brigades subject to maintaining the defense of Chu Lai Air Base.: 227  Task Force Oregon originally comprised the following units:...
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    Iwakuni Japan in 1965 and commenced the first of four deployments to Chu Lai Air Base, South Vietnam. LtCol. F.H. Thurston became the CO of the Squadron...
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    from VMA-225 were the first tactical fixed-wing aircraft to land at Chu Lai Air Base for participation in combat operations against Viet Cong forces in...
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    lost 914 killed and 86 captured. A VC rocket and mortar attack on Chu Lai Air Base triggered an explosion in the bomb dump destroying three aircraft and...
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    preparatory training in Japan and Okinawa, began combat operations from Chu Lai Air Base, South Vietnam in December, 1966. In May 1967 VMA-121 shattered the...
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    Logistics Depot, Tan Thuan, Saigon Chu Lai Air Base new runway Da Nang Air Base additional runway Marble Mountain Air Facility helicopter field, Da Nang...
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    Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in September 1968 and returned to Vietnam during the summer of 1969, this time operating from Chu Lai Air Base. Following...
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    positions of the Van Tuong Peninsula, 15 miles (24 km) south of the Chu Lai Air Base. Six days after the operation had begun; the 1st Vietcong Regiment...
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    flown by LTC Richard Taber, the Commanding Officer of a Marine Air Group from Chu Lai Air Base, dropped two 500-pound Mark 81 Snakeye bombs into 2/503rd's...
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  • Raymond Francis Parks". The Virtual Wall. 2012. Hobson, Chris (2001). Vietnam Air Losses, USAF/Navy/Marine, Fixed Wing Aircraft Losses in Southeast 1961–1973...
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    against the incursion into Cambodia. 4-5 May A PAVN rocket attack on Chu Lai Air Base resulted in 12 U.S. killed and 33 wounded. 5 May Sihanouk announced...
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    to Chu Lai Air Base, Republic of Vietnam to support combat operations. They remained there from 1967 to 1969, then redeploying to Marine Corps Air Station...
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    Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, where it operated until September 1966 when it deployed to South Vietnam. Based out of Chu Lai Air Base, MAG-13 supported...
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    Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan. In April 1966 the squadron was reassigned to the 9th Marine Amphibious Brigade. The squadron arrived at Chu Lai, South...
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    and 160 km/h (105 mph) respectively. Four hangars collapsed in the Chu Lai Air Base, with total aircraft losses amounting to 36 destroyed and 87 damaged...
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    was founded in Chicago. Construction began on what would become the Chu Lai Air Base in South Vietnam, as a unit of the U.S. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion...
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    squadron sent an Early Warning and Control (EW/C) site to Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base in the Kingdom of Kuwait to push its radar coverage area further north...
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    McDonnell Douglas A-4G Skyhawk (category Carrier-based aircraft)
    attached to a United States Marine Corps (USMC) unit stationed at Chu Lai Air Base and conduct combat missions over South Vietnam. The USMC Skyhawk units...
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