U.S. quits Thailand
NZPA-Reuter Bangkok The United States has completed its military withdrawal from Thailand, ending a 26year American military presence there.
The “designated” last American officer in mainland South-East Asia, George Leroy Davis, a 40-year-old United States Air Force master sergeant from Cincinnati, Ohio, boarded a Cathay Pacific flight to Hong Kong on Tuesday morning with his wife and two children. At the same time, the Military Assistance Command Thailand, established in an agreement signed on October 17, 1950, between the United States and Thailand, ceased to exist.
General Harry Coaderholt, who headed both Mac Thai and the advisory forces, yesterday folded his flag and left, as well. Only about 250 American advisors, operating under the continuing military aid agreement, remained in Thailand yesterday, the deadline set three months ago by the Thai Government for the American withdrawal.
According to American military estimates, the United States has left behind neariv SUS4OOM worth of fixed emplacements, ranging from the sprawling Utapao air base and Sattahip naval station on the Gulf of Siam to a selection of radio and communications gear that will be operated by the Thai armed forces.
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