page_title: Cần Thơ Base Camp
section_title: 1966-72
hierarchical_section_title: Cần Thơ Base Camp / History / 1966-72
caption_attribution_description: English: In June 1967 at Can Tho the 69th Engineer Battalion took over the completion of two aircraft hangars, a dial exchange building, a communications building and a motor maintenance building all of which had been started by RMK. Completion of these facilities is set for the end of October. The Battalion has also started construction of a 1200 man cantonment shown in the center portion of this photograph. The estimated completion date for the project is March 68. The battalion has a company size force here at this location augmented by approximately 90 former Vietnamese employees of the contractor.
context_page_description: Cần Thơ Base Camp is a former U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Army of the Republic of Vietnam, Republic of Vietnam Air Force and current People's Army of Vietnam base west of Cần Thơ in the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam.
context_section_description: The base was originally established by the 9th Infantry Division.
  Other units stationed here included:
  52nd Signal Battalion (15 October 1966-13 October 1971)
  Battery H, 29th Artillery (March–October 1967)
  6th Battalion, 77th Artillery (July 1968-June 1969)
  13th Aviation Battalion
  18th Aviation Company (August 1971-March 1973)
  235th Aviation Company (November 1967-August 1971)
  244th Aviation Company (July 1967-November 1970)
  271st Aviation Company (February 1968-September 1971)
  Troop C, 16th Cavalry
  The US Air Force 619th Tactical Control Squadron Detachment 3 provided air traffic control until June 1972.
caption: Airfield facilities, 25 September 1967
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