Indochina: Tân Sơn Nhứt Mobile Base (Navy)

[No one]

Dear Gentlemen,

 

An airfield, built in Tan Son Nhut (Saigon) by the French authorities in 1930, will be used during the Indochina War. Indeed, mobile base No. 1 (men and equipment responsible for providing the necessary support for training in preparation for operations), which arrived in Saigon aboard the aircraft carrier Béarn on October 26, 1945 and the cruiser Tourville on January 12, 1946, was assigned to this airfield, where with the 8F flotilla coming from Agadir, it formed the Indochina Naval Aeronautics Group in the company of the 8S squadron, stationed at Cat-Laï. GAN Indochina was dissolved at the end of 1952, and the Marine part of Tan Son Nhut was elevated to the rank of BAN on January 30, 1953 until its dissolution in August 1956.

These facilities were shared between the Air Force, the Navy and the Civil Aviation throughout the Indochina War.

Around 1951, the North-South runway was extended in its southern part to allow the creation of a new base intended to accommodate the Navy's four-engine Privateer aircraft.

In 1953, the South Vietnamese military aviation came to settle there in turn with a few transport planes.

After independence, in 1956, the United States expanded this airport by adding a 2,194-meter reinforced concrete runway, which then became the international airport of South Vietnam.

 

The insignia of the Mobile Base of Tân Sơn Nhứt (Base Mobile de Tân Sơn Nhứt) from 26.10.1945 to 01.1953, Arthus-Bertrand Paris:

 

 

 

Yours sincerely,

No one