Roger Proffer Air Force Aircraft Navigational Equipment Repairman Yokota AFB and Tan Son Nhut AB Vietnam

Viet Nam
1963

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My assigned base was Yokota, AFB Japan, 3rd A&E, 3rd Bomb Squadron. Aircraft Navigational Equipment Repairman


Back Row Far Left	Honorable Discharge 1964

Viet Nam 1963
	B57E: In May, 1963, the B-57E became operational in Vietnam as a reconnaissance aircraft under the classified "Patricia Lynn" project. The short-wing returned and for eight years the bulge-nosed camera-packed platform sported the latest in electronic surveillance equipment. Its primary function was to locate North Vietnamese (NVN) and Viet Cong (VC) concentrations and night supply movements in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. In 1970, the U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) credited "Detachment 1" RB57’s at Tan Son Nhut AB with providing more than 94 % of the battlefield intelligence.

	(Photos by John Harris) The Story of the B-57 Marquis (Mark) Witt Lt. Col. USAF (Retired)

Andy and me in downtown Saigon..

Downtown Saigon.

On assignment in Viet Nam, working on B-57 Canberra Photo Recon Aircraft. This was our uniform of the day except when we were working on our aircrafts.

That is me in the center, I don't remember who the other two men are or what shop they were with, if any one knows who they are please contact me.