BALLANTYNE, James I. (Major)

Call No.: K239.512-013

IRIS No.: 00903735

IRIS Tape No.: 00903736

Accessibility: OPEN

Pages/Time: 19pp/0:28

Class: U

Date/Location: 13 September 1967/Maxwell AFB AL

Interviewer: Lt. Col. Robert Eckert

Sources: Project CORONA HARVEST Collection

Topics:

(1966-1967) Oral history interview with Major James Ballantyne, F-4C aircraft commander for the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing (TFWg), Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base. Includes topics on all-volunteer personnel, good morale, fragmentary orders from the 7th Air Force, inter-service planning cooperation, ordnance for truck kills, interdiction and harassment, logistics good, use of intelligence after debriefing and the efficiency of the 8th TFWg.