page_title: Sóc Trăng Airfield
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Sóc Trăng Airfield / History
caption_attribution_description: From the Archie J. Clapp Collection (COLL/742), Marine Corps Archives &amp; Special Collections OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH
context_page_description: Sóc Trăng Airfield was a French colonial, Imperial Japanese Army, United States Marine Corps, United States Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam and Republic of Vietnam Air Force base located in Sóc Trăng in southern Vietnam.
context_section_description: Sóc Trăng Airfield was originally established in the French colonial era, it was subsequently used by the Japanese forces from 1940 to 1945.
  HMM-362 with Sikorsky UH-34s codenamed "SHUFLY" was the first USMC helicopter unit to serve in Vietnam arriving on 15 April 1962. Sóc Trăng was selected for the deployment because it had one of the few hard-surfaced runways in South Vietnam. HMM-362's mission was to provide transport and resupply for ARVN units throughout the Mekong Delta. In early September HMM-362 began moving north to Da Nang Air Base, completing the redeployment by 20 September.
  Other units stationed at Sóc Trăng included:
  121st Aviation Company (Airmobile Light) from late 1962.
  336th Assault Helicopter Company
  Detachment A, 57th Medical Detachment (Helicopter Ambulance), Provisional with Bell UH-1B Huey's from March 1964.
  82nd Medical Detachment (Helicopter Ambulance) from November 1964.
  On 4 November 1970, the control of Sóc Trăng was passed to the RVNAF.
caption: Vietnamese troops with an HMM-362 UH-34
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