These are portraits of Lt. Nguyen The Long. He was one the very first VNAF A-1 pilots. He was killed in a crash in 1959 near the Saigon river in the Nha Be area (near HW1). He could not bail out on time... (Photos: Van Khoi Tran)
Note from webmaster: (above) Lt. Nguyen The Long in front of an F8F-1B Bearcat. Note that s/n 121484 in the background later ended up as a gate-guard at Tan Son Nhut air base, with tail code "D" rather than "P".
