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Southeast Asia Airlift

Published May 18, 2015

Ground crew prepares a C-97G of the 146th Air Transportation Wing (Heavy), California Air National Guard, for a flight to Southeast Asia, March 1967.

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Ground crew readies a C-97 of the 146th Air Transportation Wing (Heavy), California ANG, for a flight to Southeast Asia in March 1967. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Tech. Sgt. Michael A. Messineo, New York ANG C-97 loadmaster, helps unload his aircraft at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam, in 1966. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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C-124 of the Air Force Reserve’s 916th Military Airlift Group, based at Carswell AFB, Texas. The AFRES’ C-124 groups flew more than 1,200 airlift missions to Southeast Asia. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Reservists and Guardsmen regularly carried personnel and cargo to and from Southeast Asia on Air Force Reserve (AFRES) and Air National Guard (ANG) propeller-driven transports. In 1968, Reservists began providing flight crews for modern active duty USAF airlifters like the jet-powered C-141. AFRES and ANG crews also conducted routine airlift and aeromedical missions in other parts of the globe.

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