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Re: The old Nam Phong Airport, is not the current

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On 7/2/2018 4:52 PM, a425couple wrote:
> The wife wants us to go vacation in Thailand.
> Perhaps.
> 
> Got me thinking of how close we would be to where
> I was a long time ago.  Until June 1972 the
> Royal Thai Air Base Nam Phong, had been just a
> patch of concrete in the middle of a jungle.
> As Bob Hope later described it, it had all the
> ambiance of a vacant weed filled lot.
> He learned that a '6 holler', was not a golf course!
> 
> Anyway, here is a read from old days.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Thai_Air_Base_Nam_Phong
> and the unit memory
> http://www.namphong.com/     (Welcome to the Rose Garden!!)
> and another
> https://marines.togetherweserved.com/usmc/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=PublicUnitProfile&type=Unit&ID=2045
> 
> But when I went to google Maps and put in to find
> Nam Phong Airport, they went to a different place.
> https://www.google.com/maps/place/Khon+Kaen+Airport/@16.6528606,102.7889841,82551m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m7!3m6!1s0x312261cae551ec63:0xccdfb8982cf231df!8m2!3d16.4649515!4d102.7870624!9m1!1b1?hl=en
> 
> They say it is now a regular airport called Khon Kaen.
> That is not the same place.  The old one we used is
> still (again!) quite vacant, about 15 miles northeast of
> the new / busy one.
> It would take over an hour to do it by car/taxi.
> You can see them both on Google Maps, satelite view.
> Whatever,,, an on topic of Vietnam post!

Just across the North China Sea and there you are, again.

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The old Nam Phong Airport, is not the current a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> - 2018-07-02 16:52 -0700
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