F-100 Super Sabre COTTON The new pier facility allowed

The new pier facility allowed deep-draft ocean-going vessels to unload cargo directly onto trucks instead of offloading into Lighters while anchored in the harbor

0 mi) west of Nakhon Phanom city in Nakhon Phanom Province in the northeastern region of Thailand

Ba Xuyen (Soc Trang)

These included a C-130E Hercules from 36 Airlift Squadron

In mid-October 1968 the Deep Water Pier complex (16

F-100 Super Sabre COTTON The new pier facility allowedOn 16 April 1961, six Super Sabres were deployed from Clark Air Base in the Philippines to Don Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand for air defense purposes, the first F 100s to enter combat in Southeast Asia.[17] From that date until their redeployment in 1971, the F 100s were the longest serving U. S. jet fighter bomber to fight in the Vietnam War. They served as MiG combat air patrol (CAP) escorts for F 105 Thunderchiefs, Misty FACs, and