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The American Forces Thailand Network (AFTN),
military radio and television, provided music, news and entertainment to the
American Fighting Man and Woman in Thailand for more than ten years during
the Vietnam War. This web site is dedicated to the nine
broadcasters and engineers who gave their lives when a battle damaged RF-4
Phantom Recon Jet crashed into the Udorn AFTN station on April 10, l970. This is an unofficial web site. AFTN Webmaster is Bob Wertz , then
A1C USAF,
AFTN Radio/TV Udorn, 71-72.
Email comments, etc. to
BobWertz in Baton
Rouge, LA. Bob is back on the air part time at
WHYR(LP) -FM, Baton Rouge. AFTN Web
Templates design & photo albums compiled/edited by
Norm Corley, then Sgt. USAF,
AFTN Radio/TV NKP 72-73. Norm is retired and living in
Athens, Greece. AFTN Air Chex
edited & remastered by
Dick Storck,
then Sgt. USAF, AFTN Radio/TV Udorn/Korat
68-69. Dick is still broadcasting at
WCPE,
Raleigh, NC. Since January 19, 2003, there have been
Home page audio montage Dave Hart 1973-74 NKP
[located here]
(added 12/7/19 ) Chuck Stewart 1969
Ubon [coming] Dave Sacher 1975
Korat [located here]
(added 2/16/19 ) Duane Mercier 1975 Udorn
[located here][added
2/919] Henry Pitts - 1972-73
Korat [located here][added
2/9/19] Dick Storck - R n R - Phi Mai
pix 1969 [located here][added
1/28/19] Dick Storck - R n R - Khao Yai
National Park 1969
[located here][added
1/13/19] Joe Hutchens 1971 NKP Pix
[located here]
[added 1/13/19] Ed Waldrup 1969 Udorn pix (Part
1) [located
here]
[added 1/1/19] Ed Waldrup Udorn 1969(Part 2)
[located
here]
[added
1/4/19] AFTN New Years Eve Countdown - Dec 31, 1973
Produced & Narrated by then PFC Jon Morgan (then &
now) [added 9/23/18]
[click here to AFTN sound page]
Pat Minoughan articles in Mekong Mail Express
[added
9/10/18]
AFTN Udorn
Crash Pix from Jim Davey [added
8/24/18]
Korat
RTAFB Aerial Pix from Steve Hock [added
8/1/18]
Jessie Brooks
(aka Jay Lewis)
AFTN Korat 1972
ON THE AIR
(click here)
[added
5/20/18] Ralph Gebes - AFTN U-Tapao
April 1973
ON THE AIR
Rick Kot, Von Blunt, Robert
Baughn
ON THE AIR
AFTN U-Tapao Jan1970
(click here)
[added 3/27/18]
[added 3/17/2018] Steve Sills - 'The Disk Jockey
& the Girls'
published in Mekong Express Mail, September, 2016
(click here) [added 3/10/18] Tom McDonald sports career ends
[added 3/8/18]
Rick Delaney AFTN NKP
1972
ON THE AIR
(click here)
[added 2/21/18] Joe
Moore AFTN U-Tapao 1972 Photo Album
(click here)
[added 2/13/18]
Darrell McCabe AFTN Crash
Photos 1970
(click here)
[ added 1/18/2018]
NKP Radio - Dutch Treat & the AFTN Good Guys
(1969)
(Click here)
[air checks] (added 1/18/2018) SETV-AFTN Reunion Video
2009 (added 1/15/2018)
This was a reunion of radio and TV broadcasters from the Armed Forces
Thailand Network and Sheppard Educational TV organized by Dick Storck and
held in Wichita Falls, TX in October 2009. Many of them hadn't seen each
other for 40 years. Video shot and edited by Jim Cissell--7 years in the
making! click
below
to watch the video put together by
Jim Cissell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWCXTNxkFfY&feature=youtu.be AFTN- American
Forces Thailand Network
Get
info here!
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