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It will be part of a system of domestic airfields, capable of handling commuter jets, at a number of places familiar from the [[Indochinese revolution]]: Na San in [[Son La Province]] and Dien Bien Phu | It will be part of a system of domestic airfields, capable of handling commuter jets, at a number of places familiar from the [[Indochinese revolution]]: Na San in [[Son La Province]] and [[Muong Thanh airport|Muong Thanh]] in [[Dien Bien Phu City]] of [[Lai Chau Province]] and Vinh Airport in [[Nghe An Province]]. | ||
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Gia Lam Airport is a former military airfield outside Hanoi, Vietnam, which has been rebuilt as a domestic airport complementing the Noi Bai International Airport farther outside Hanoi. [1] During the Vietnam War, it was a fighter airfield and tactical fighter direction center.[2]
It will be part of a system of domestic airfields, capable of handling commuter jets, at a number of places familiar from the Indochinese revolution: Na San in Son La Province and Muong Thanh in Dien Bien Phu City of Lai Chau Province and Vinh Airport in Nghe An Province.
References
- ↑ "Gia Lam airport plans made public", Vietnam Business Finance, October 20, 2008
- ↑ Hanyok, Robert J. (2002), Chapter 6 - Xerxes' Arrows: SIGINT Support to the Air War, 1964-1972, Spartans in Darkness: American SIGINT and the Indochina War, 1945-1975, Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency