UDORN Thailand 432nd Tac Recon Wing - White COTTON started operations from Udorn on

started operations from Udorn on 11 September 1955 with the arrival of three C-46s delivering food and emergency aid into Indochina

the pilots were authorized to purchase four Breguet's and four Nieuports

Camp Enari was established near Dragon Mountain (Núi Hàm Rồng) and Highway 19

[2] The camp was quickly expanded to include 25 new barracks able to accommodate an additional 1700 men

UDORN Thailand 432nd Tac Recon Wing - White COTTON started operations from Udorn onUdorn RTAFB was established in the 1950s. The civil war inside Laos and fears of it spreading into Thailand led the Thai government to allow the United States to use covertly five Thai bases beginning in 1961 for the air defense of Thailand and to fly reconnaissance flights over Laos. Udorn was one of those bases. Under Thailand's "gentleman's agreement" with the US, RTAF bases used by the US Air Force (USAF) were considered RTAF bases and were