Word: sattahip
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...worked side by side in rising red dust with Royal Thai Army engineers, carving a broad, all-weather military highway-the Bangkok Bypass road-from the Gulf of Siam to the northeast provinces (see map). At the ocean end of the road, the U.S. is building the $11.9 million Sattahip Naval Airbase, replete with jet strips, a deepwater pier, and 70 ammunition bunkers. At the other end stands Camp Friendship, near the town of Korat, where 500 Americans and 850 Thais stand watch over $30 million worth of tanks, Jeeps, armored personnel carriers, and artillery, enough to support...