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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 All air Checks now converted to
mp3 files with html-5 player
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
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