I was stationed at Tuy Hoa AB 68-69 reg AF admin. I worked with many great guys from both ANG units called up from NM and NY. I'm very sorry to hear about your courageous father. Since I was enlisted and he was an officer we would have never socialized so I wouldn't have known him. Wish I could have known him he sounds like a really great guy.

That’s a scary place! Wow! Just Wow!

We flew 3 time more then the Air Force pilots fast er turn around time too loaded and refueled love f100s. We were called the T A C O S

My father was with the 188th Tactical Fighter Wing (Air National Guard) stationed at Kirtland AFB in Albq., New Mexico. His squadron left Albq. on June 5th, 1968 and was stationed at Tuy Hoa AFB. He and his wingman went MIA on January 4th, 1969 and neither pilot has ever been heard from, nor any wreckage ever discovered. I watched this video with baited breath hoping to see my Dad, or one of the other pilots in the 188th, but I noticed at the end that this video was filmed in January 1968, before my father arrived at Tuy Hoa. Brings back good and bad memories. Thanks for sharing the video.

I still have over fifty F-100 Super Sabre Caps available on eBay along with a few F-4 Phantom caps.

They didn't fly without a radio! 30150 Worked on them at Itazuke and Misawa '60 - '66. Voo-doos at Ton Son Nhut '65

I was at Cannon AFB, Clovis NM. WAS ASSIGNED TO THE 524 TFS. Was working on the F-100s until I got out of the AF in 1970. Good bird I think.

In 1969 , I was an an A1 Skyraider crew chief with the 6th SOS at Pleiku, Vietnam. We also doubled as the base AR Team that took care of moving , repair , retrieving and removing and assist during any crash landings. While on duty. we received an emergency call to prepare to receive a battle damaged F- 100 ,that i believe that was one of yours. While on a tree top level bomb straffing run, the acft. hit some trees that caused the throttle to stick at about 185 mph, so the pilot instead of ejecting, decided to attempt a hook down landing at that speed. He hit the runway at 185 mph and caught our arresting cable that finally stopped the acft. without further damage. Since the pilot stepped on the brakes, the main wheel and tire locked and the scraping cut the tire and rim in half , all the way to the gear shaft. We got the pilot out and towed the acft. to a far end ramp without further incidents. Upon inspection of the underside of the acft. we found that some tree branches ripped the underside jamming the throttle.

I was in the 31st A&E Squadron ECM Technician 1968. ("Bakers Bandit's") I was in the air on my way to Tuy Hoa when Tet broke out and was diverted to Yakota for a time before making it to Tuy Hoa.

31st FMS, Tuy Hoa AB, VN 1969-1970, although trained and crewed the Super Saber I was assigned to the crash recovery shop upon my arrival. I operated the big yellow 50 ton crane we called ‘Big Bertha’. I was involved in the recovery of several aircraft that crashed on/off the runway. In between that I assisted the Civil Engineers with repositioning their huge pavement machine onto another track during their flight line extension project amongst other jobs. As an extra duty for the entire year I assisted the Security Police (called at that time) with perimeter security. We were called SP Augmentee’s and we’re posted with a Security Forces member at one of the base perimeter gun positions 1-3 times a week for the entire night.

Never there, but spent over a year at Danang, RVN and some time at Korat Thailand and a lot of time at Clark Philippines. Working on F4C,D,E and F105's

In end of 60s was F-100 obsolote plane. Nice video footage. Same on Russia in this era was obsolote Mig-19 and this plane was better than Supersaber

What no dead babies? I came here to see some death. Come on give me some death, blood and gore. Fucking war mongers

Chris LaFrieda, Have you heard about Cow, Kpro, Cynthia Meachum, and Justin Posey finding a longitude, and latitude from Delacy Creek, Yellowstone embedded in the poem? How did you get your phone number out of the poem? They said he used homophones and steganography. My question to you is: Did you find in your search of Fenn’s military debriefing history, any record of exactly what types of clandestine communication, that Major Fenn might have used with his rescuers, when he escaped from Laos? Was it homophones and/or some other form of steganography?

Nice job with the math figuring out just where Forrest plane dropped into. And what you did here makes me as a Veteran feel happy. I bet Forrest was pumped up.

Thanks for sharing. My Dad was there 67-68. Ran the Fuel smell shop

Nice job !

Great Drone footage, kind of spooky, but I dont know why?

Just watched your Live interview on Cowlazer's....Thanks for Sharing...very interesting!!

as a crew chief i arrived at tuy hoa may 70. i was there about five months when they started to send the planes back stateside and close the base. they sent me to danang to finish my tour. but before they sent me to danang they did something crazy and assigned me to the army for about two weeks riding shotgun in these armored truck convoys running equip. from tuy hoa to qui nohn naval base. i made about two round trips riding shotgun in armored convoys. first real experience outside the wire. i finally got my orders and took a c-130 to danang where i finished my tour.

Thanks for the videos Chris. They provide further confirmation that Forrest’s stories are accurate.

Amazing! Thank you for sharing this remarkable story and showing us the actual place. Wow. Thank you

We found a means to purchase or "acquire" parts from Fenn's type of plane. I guess we'll go out to our local park, shoot a video, and say we think we found his plane. If we were really committed we could fly to Vietnam and throw the parts on the ground and show video/pictures that we found them. Prove to us this is not what you did. Prove you actually found Fenn's plane? Any identifiers? Any serial numbers? Anything other than junk and speculation?

Because we don't have enough of these videos on youtube.

You are either a liar or providing bad journalism. There is NOTHING, absolutely nothing that definitively proves you found Forrest's plane. It's all speculation and should be stated as such.

thats incredible

Thank you for sharing! Very cool

Find fenn’s ejection seat and minox camera, that would be awesome. 🙌

Amazing! Thanks Chris, you are a hero in my eyes and always will be.

Lots of shots of AGE too. Can I post this on the Tuy Hoa Vietnam Reunion page?

Some of the footage reveals an armament crew loading 20MM while following is a shot of a gun re-assembly and installation of the finished ammo belt to the guns. Fun times for sure!