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Marine Aircraft Group 15 Redeploys to Thailand

June 16, 1972

Combat artist Maj John T 'jack" Dyer Jr., sketched Phantoms in Wonder Arch hangars at Nam Phong
Combat artist Maj John T 'jack" Dyer Jr., sketched Phantoms in Wonder Arch hangars at Nam Phong
Combat artist Maj John T 'jack" Dyer Jr., sketched Phantoms in Wonder Arch hangars at Nam Phong

MAG 15 redeploys from Da Nang to Nam Phong, Thailand, where it supports operations of the U.S. Seventh Air Force against Communist forces in Vietnam and Cambodia.1

1Charles D. Melson and Curtis G. Arnold, The War that Would Not End, 1971–1973, U.S. Marines in Vietnam (Washington, D.C.: Marine Corps History and Museums Division, 1991), 159, 165–66, 248–49. Wayne Courtright, Chronology of Key Marine Corps Events in the Vietnam War, 1962–1975 (Washington, D.C.: Reference Branch USMC History Division, 2013)