Buon Blech Airfield, June 1966
C-130 strip constructed in two weeks by a reinforced engineer company from the 8th Engineer Battalion. The field is located at Bon Blech 85 kilometers south of Pleiku along route 14. The runway is 3200 FT long and is covered with T-17 membrane. The parking apron is also covered with the membrane and will accommodate five C-130 aircraft. Some 50,000 CY of earth were moved in the process of building this runway.
- Date
- 1966-06-04
- Photographer / author
- United States Army. Corps of Engineers. Office of History USACE LNO trip slides Vietnam 3.4.13
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 7,226 × 5,094 pixels
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