The Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) A-1H with the yellow and black checkerboard fuselage bands in the King Kit is an aircraft of the RVNAF 23rd Tactical Wing (514th and 515th Fighter Squadrons), which was based at Bien Hoa air base in the 1960s during the Vietnam War. This outfit was well known to me because they provided close air support to my unit when I was Senior Advisor to the 1st Battalion, 14th Army of the Republic of Vietnam Infantry Regiment, 9th ARVN Division, in Vinh Binh Province in 1966-1967. We loved those airplanes, which carried a seemingly infinite amount of ordnance (bombs, rockets, and 20mm cannon) and could loiter seemingly all day long to give us a hand when needed. If my 57-year-old memories are correct, they were the only outfit that provided us CAS except on a very long day (26 March 1967) at a place called Landing Zone ALPHA, when we got a lot of support from the F-100s of the 90th Tactical FIghter Squadron, 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing, also from Bien Hoa. But that's another story about another airplane.