NKP – Invert, August 1966
This doesn’t show a lot more detail than you
can see in the original picture. A
tower to the right of the main cluster of buildings near the middle has a
large antenna on top. It appears
to be a search radar, but the Invert guys would know the details.
A long walkway or perhaps a framework for cabling leads from those
buildings to a shorter tower near the left center.
A closer study of the original picture suggests that tower like fixture
is a height-finding radar. The building on the left edge seems to have a dish
of some kind on the roof, so I don’t know if that’s an additional radar
dish. Since we worked with the
folks here as Invert and Lid, I expected to see another antenna or two. The picture is labeled as: KE 22719 – Aerial view of radar
site at Nakhon Phanom in Thailand. Aug. 1966.
So I would expect all the antennas to show in this picture.
In the upper right corner, you see that east-west
road off the main road. It continued east past Invert and the new officers
club and on down the hill past the trailers where the Nimrods lived, the
barracks for the FACS, etc. I
believe on the south side of that road, we had a laundry office where we could
deliver our laundry for cleaning.
