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Command Aircraft Company (CAC) Patch, digitized by Don Ricks

Long Thanh North Airfield, near Saigon, 1969

Long Thanh North Airfield, courtesy of Bob Dobbs

Long Thanh North Airfield, near Saigon, 1970

Long Thanh North Airport, east of Ho Chi Ming, Vietnam, from Google Earth, 2012

Long Thanh North Airfiend, Operations office, with pilots, courtesy Jerold Jensen

Higher resolution photo courtesy of Jerry Jensen

The caption text for this group shot is from Alan M. Smith, LTC, Retired:

Standing left to right, as pictured(from 1971-72 Yearbook):
CPT Denny Megget, CPT Reynolds, Cpt Skip Harris. CW3 Paul Gembrowski, CPT Schulz, CPT Bolenger, Cpt Bob Whipple, CPT Woody Nesbitt, CPT Jack Sprague, CPT Lee Saage, CPT Alan Smith, 1Lt Courtney Neeb, CPT Grant Ferreira, CPT Jerry Jensen, WO Steffen, CW2 Larry Spencer, CW2 Larry Alan Pedersen, CW2 Otha Perry

The guys seated left to right:
WO1 Manny Reynoso, CPT David Hotmire, WO Olsen, CPT Tommy Brown, CPT Cecil Perkins, Jr., CW3 Jim Cowart Dec'd, CPT Cooper, WO Bowen, WO Brewer.

As you know Cpt Perkins and CW3 Perry were lost just north of Da Nang, shortly after the picture was taken. It was Perkin's first mission after I signed him off as A/C.
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