Photos from the Royal Thai Navy archive
Photos from Vidya Tapasanan
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As a request from me after the recent thread on Japanese Navy & Ships regarding the only surviving 8 inch dual turret build by Japan prior to WWII, Mr. Vidya Tapasanan recently forwarded to me 15 color photos of the memorial of the Thai warship HTMS Dhonburi and photo of oil painting of the same ship taken at the Royal Thai Naval Museum).  He took these on December 15, 2001.  He was wondering if it was possible to post them on your "Family photos section".   His only request is that these photos should not be used commercially without his permission.  They can be used non-commercially by anyone who is willing to give him proper credit for the photos.  -Ed Low
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ws.jpg (89512 bytes) Watanabe WS-103 seaplane in Royal Thai Navy markings.  From RTN's Kradook-ngu (Keel) magazine (equivalent to USN's All Hands magazine). (11/05/2001)
ws1.jpg (46751 bytes) Watanabe WS-103 seaplane in Royal Thai Navy markings. From Top Gun Monthly magazine.(11/05/2001)
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Watanabe WS-103 seaplane in Royal Thai Navy markings

 

vidya-aaa-1.jpg (32175 bytes) Watanabe WS-103 seaplane in Royal Thai Navy markings
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Nakajima E8N1 Type 95 seaplane "Dave" Thai Navy before and during the Pacific War.

 
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Nakajima E8N1 Type 95 seaplane "Dave" and Watanabe WS=103 in Royal Thai Navy before and during the Pacific War.
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Aichi E13A Type 0 seaplane "Jake" in Royal Thai Navy during 

the Pacific War

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Mitsubishi Ki-21-ib "Sally" in Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) shortly after the Pacific war (most of them are from RTAF archive).
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ki-43-iib-vidya_tapasanan_01.jpg (213571 bytes) RTAF Ki-43-IIb in camouflage taken shortly after the war.
Another one is two photos of  RTAF Ki-43-IIb in natural metal finished after the war.
ki-43_rtaf-vidya_tapasanan_04.jpg (445746 bytes) ki-43_rtaf-vidya_tapasanan_06.jpg (189705 bytes) The first three photos are the caption from the film taken during the hand-over of Ki-43-IIb from IJAAF to RTAF personnel at Singapore AB in 1943.  

One of which is very interesting as RTAF officers did paint the white elephant in red rectangle marking on the tail of newly-acquired RTAF's Hayabusa!  Hayabusa photos are from Top Gun magazine.
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RTAF Mitsubishi Ki-30 in camouflage taken shortly after the war.
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RTAF Ki-55  from the Royal Thai Air Force museum archive
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RTAF's Ki-27 during the war from RTAF archive.
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From Edward Young's book, "Aerial Nationalism"

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