No. 141 Squadron RAF | Vought V-141 | ''The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele'', Oil on wood, 141 x 176.5 cm (including frame), 1434-36. Groeningemuseum | Missouri Route 141 | ADM-141 TALD | 141 Lumen |
As United States military forces began to increase in Indochina, more and more equipment moved into first Tan Son Nhut Air Base in South Vietnam, then to Don Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base, near Bangkok, and in early 1965 to the huge new Cam Ranh Air Base with the jet C-141 Starlifter transports.
The astronaut crews of Apollo 10, 12, 13, 14, and 17 were retrieved a few hundred miles from Pago Pago and transported by helicopter to the airport prior to being flown to Honolulu on Lockheed C-141 Starlifter military aircraft.