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Gjorde en sökning på Thai soldater i Vietnamkriget och fann det här,
1969 satte Thailand tydligen in 12 000 stridande soldater i Syd Vietnam på USA.s sida, även 26 000 frivilliga Thailändare deltog tydligen också, så det kanske inte är så konstigt att jag och Steven i Yashoton har sprungit på några av dessa.
351 Thailändare dog och 1358 skadades i Vietnamkriget, så dom uppgifter som har förekommit tidigare i tråden om att inga Thailändare deltog är uppenbarligen helt felaktiga.
Jag trodde själv inte att Thailand bidrog med reguljära stridande förband utan trodde att det mer rörde sig om "frivilliga" som mot betalning stred och såna fanns det uppenbarligen 26 000 av.
http://thevietnamwar.info/Thailand-involvement-vietnam-war
Thailand: Launching Open Front
In 1969, Thai government deployed more than 12,000 combat troops, which included Queen’s Cobras and Black Panther Division of Royal Army Volunteer Force, to counter the guerilla forces in the South Vietnam. Additionally, it had also dispatched around 26,000 volunteer recruits (Aspinall, 2010). The number gradually peaked to 15% of the total Thai regular Army by 1971 (Kislenko, 2004). They got training from the United States Army in the training camps set up close to the borders. The U.S. deployed US 606th Commando squadron to train Thai forces in anti-insurgency operations (Stanton, pp. 278-280). In addition to the ground troops, Thai Air Force crews were also trained and deployed, under the project named “Project Water Pump”, to attack guerrilla hideouts in Laos and neighbouring strongholds (Castle, 1993, pp. 73-74). The exit of Thai troops from South Vietnam completed in April 1972 (Kislenko, 2004).
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Thai Casualties
Thai troops comprising regular and volunteer men proved more effective and deadly against the guerrillas due to awareness of local geography and culture of the region as compared to the U.S. troops who were alien to the region. However, Thailand’s involvement in the direct conflict was not without cost. As a reaction to Thai aggressive policies, guerilla attacks in its North-eastern borders of Thailand multiplied and their presence increased in thousands – penetrating Laos and Thai soils. In 1967, 138 people including 78 government officials were assassinated by guerrillas in the bordering regions (Kislenko, 2004). These guerrillas were allegedly receiving training and aid from North Vietnam and People’s Republic of China. Moreover, they even received support of various communist groups within Thai soils. A guerilla attack on Udorn air base caused the loss of several US C-141 and F-4D aircraft as well as HU-43 helicopters and wounded 5 service personnel of the US and Thai forces (Administrative History of the United States Information Agency, Volume 1). The insurgents launched several similar attacks at several bordering locations and villages in Thailand and Laos. In total, 351 Thai troops were killed in action while some 1,358 men wounded in the Vietnam W
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