The Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Navy Base (NKP), formerly Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base, is a Royal Thai Navy facility used for riverine patrols along the Mekong River.

Nakhon Phanom "The City of Hills" was affectionately known as "Naked Fanny" or NKP by the Americans and refered to as the "End of the line at the edge of the world."

The airfield, officially named Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base (NKP), played a significant role in the war in Southeast Asia. Several US Air Force tactical squadrons and groups...

NAKHON PHANOM, Thailand (UPI)- The U.S. Air Force is waging a secret and unconventional phase of the air war in Southeast Asia from this base across the Mekong River from Laos. The American pilots involved wear midnight-black flight suits and fly camouflaged twin-engine A26 bombers without identifying insignia.

Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base (NKP) was just 75 miles from North Vietnam, somewhat north of Vietnam’s De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) at the 17th parallel, and a straight 230-mile flight from downtown Hanoi.

Randolph Nagy, Security Police, Top Secret Air Force Base, NKP - Thailand, 1972-1973. A Secret Airbase… (NKP) Nakhon Phanom Thailand - THE END OF THE WORLD, CARVED OUT OF NOTHING. These are...

I was at NKP from May '69 to Mother's day 1970 (101 degrees when we left Bangkok and 43 degrees when we landed at Travis in 1505's-froze). I worked in storage for the 456 MMS.

2024年10月5日 · During the Vietnam War Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base (NKP) was a front-line facility of the Royal Thai Air Force used by the United States in its efforts to defend South Vietnam against insurgency by North Vietnam and the Pathet Lao Communist guerrillas in Laos from 1961 to 1975.

2025年3月15日 · Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base (RTAFB) is located in Northeast Thailand by the Thai city of Nakhon Phanom, also known as NKP. Detachment 3 of the 6994th Security Squadron conducted operations at NKP between 4 April 1969 and 1 December 1972, when it relocated to Ubon RTAFB, Thailand.

During the war, the nearby Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base was better known as NKP, Nakhon Phantom, or Naked Fanny, and officially labeled T-55 on the navigation charts. NKP was carved out of the jungle by the Navy’s Mobil Construction Battalion Three …