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It is Vietnam's largest international airport. Various aircraft flew aerial surveillance of South Vietnam's coastal waters. Throughout this period, five to seven P-2 Neptune s stationed at Tan Son Nhut near Saigon ranged up and down the South Vietnamese littoral along designated patrol tracks. In addition, from May 1965 to April 1967, Martin P-5 Marlin seaplanes operated from seaplane tenders ''Currituck'' (AV-7) and ''Salisbury Sound'' (AV-13), periodically anchored at Condore and Cham islands and at Cam Ranh Bay . To compensate for withdrawal of the older seaplanes in early 1967, the Navy stationed a squadron of twelve P-2s ashore at Cam Ranh Bay and a detachment of P-3s at Utapao in Thailand. The P-3s patroled the Gulf of Siam. ''This information was adopted from {Link without Title} '' SVNAF Units At Tan Son Nhut (Prior to 1975)
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