Non-Thai Speakers Outline for
Missing Airmen, an episode in TPBS series, "The truth is not dead", aired 13 Oct 2021
| Clock | Description |
| Introduction | |
| End Introduction | |
| 01:22 | ความจริงไม่ตาย : The truth is not dead (TPBS series name) |
| 01:24 | (title: Amphoe Muang Chungwat Lampang) scenes around Lampang |
| 01:31 | (bridge name: Ratsadaphisek Bridge) |
| 01:43 | voice: Pimnara Kosaweerawat, presenter |
| 02:00 | looking towards mountains to east of Lampang City |
| 02:02 | (still photo) on the trail up to the Minco crash site |
| 02:05 | (still photo) on the trail. Gray head in foreground: Boonyen Khantakrua, local guide for Minco crash site; two full figures to his right: Ron Minton (with hat), EOD specialist, and Blas Colunga, rigger, who put up the ropes that ease access to the Minco site. |
| 02:10 | group photo at foot of trail to Minco crash site |
| 02:20 | 2Lt Henry Minco, USAAF pilot (killed in crash of his P-51 on 11 Nov 1944 east of Lampang town) |
| 02:29 | presenter talking from Ratsadaphisek Bridge |
| 02:39 | presenter talking in front of Lampang clock tower |
| 03:05 | aircraft animation |
| 03:15 | เสืออากาศ ผู้สาบสูญ (ยุทธเวหาลำปาจ พ.ศ. 2487) : Missing Airmen (The Battle of Lampang, 1944) |
| 03:18 | clock tower, street scenes, presenter talking |
| 03:30 | The Black Bridge |
| 03:33 | shell holes in northerly approach span to Black Bridge |
| 03:40 | Lt Gen Nipat Tong-lek, title: "war historian" |
| 03:49 | Lampang RR station (old photo, but postwar - note vintage of trucks ) |
| 04:09 | historical film clips: truck hauling timber . . . elephants loading logs ภาพจาก หอภาพยนตร์ (องค์การมหาชน) [attributed to the Film Archive); historical, but postwar - again note truck vintage]; presenter continues. |
| 04:15 | Thai (?) soldiers --- uniforms, equipment look like World War I (?) |
| 04:17 | Thai or Japanese troops |
| 04:21 | Japanese troops (flag) |
| 04:24 | locomotive with carriages pulling out of Lampang RR station |
| 04:27 | presumably Lampang's Black Bridge, b&w |
| 04:29 | Lampang's Black Bridge, modern day, color |
| 04:33 | approach span to Black Bridge |
| 04:38 | Nipat talking |
| 04:50 | historical film clips: ภาพสงครามโลก ครั้งที่ 2 จาก (World War II films from) the US National Archives and Records Administration. Film of aircraft and bombing [early sequence in Chiang Mai (not Lampang) RR station bombing (21 Dec 1943) video at https://fb.watch/8E08ArDf8V/, starting about 1:55] |
| 04:57 | page from Sak R's history describing the air battle with "5 vs 21" referring to five Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) Ki-27s dogfighting with 21 US P-38s and P‑51s (actually the 21 was 16, as corrected below at 25:25). |
| 05:05 | Rattana Tanakam (title: "former President of Lampang Media Association"), showing Dr Sak R's history book to presenter |
| 05:28 | Sak Ratanachai, author of Lampang history book which they have been looking at. Still alive, but now senile, he lives at Vansantvoord Hospital (east of Ratsadaphisek Bridge, the white bridge). His present condition would explain use of his photo, rather than an interview (I didn't recognize him). |
| 05:31 | reviewing pages in Sak's history: photos of the five Thai Air Force pilots who participated in the Lampang air battle. |
| 05:37 | leftmost pilot, Chalermgiat Wattananggoon, later became head of the RTAF. Next to him, Kamrobe Plengkham, the pilot who shot down Minco. |
| 06:09 | animation of air battle, presenter talking. US aircraft flew out of Yunnanyi, China |
| 06:30 | Air Chief Marshal Sakpinit Promthep, title: "Expert at the Royal Thai Air Force and Aviation Museum" |
| 06:52 | Again, this clip of bombing is actually part of the Chiang Mai RR station bombing on 21 Dec 1943; not Lampang: the long building at left is one in the Kawila Barracks complex (possibly that at: N18°46.615 E99°00.740). |
| 06:58 | Nipat talking |
| 07:12 | animation of P-38, P-51(?) |
| 07:29 | model aircraft, Sakpinit talking |
| 07:53 | animation of IJAAF fighter aircraft, presenter talking |
| 08:09 | Sakpinit talking, with animations |
| 08:28 | Nipat talking, followed by animation |
| 08:45 | two women continue review of Sak R's history of the air battle at library |
| 09:54 | mountainside and visit to: |
| 10:14 | Prabhat Arboretum, part of Khalang Banpote |
| 10:21 | Head, Khalang Banpote Nat'l park. Some of her staff joined the DPAA in its treks to the Minco site, and likewise the Thai PBS crew in this video. |
| 11:06 | to the trucks |
| 11:13 | and forest . . . Doi Farang (11:47 - note that ropes are still in place from DPAA visit in April 2021) |
| 11:44 | destination name: Doi Farang |
| 12:47 | looking for pieces of wreckage |
| 13:00 | (and that's how steep it was) |
| 13:20 | metal fragment with number stamped "02-53070" |
| 13:23 | many flags marking the large number of metal detector "hits" at crash site |
| 14:09 | Gun-anake Kamtanwong, title: "Natl Park officer" |
| 14:12 | jacket zipper pull, presumably from Minco's jacket; Gun-anake's gesture to neck: they want to find the name tag of pilot |
| 14:21 | Manit Une-Kreua, title: "President of Pichai Subdistrict Administrative Organization". He later displays linked shell casings |
| 15:00 | bamboo walking sticks are standard for this trek |
| 15:11 | animation, presenter talking |
| 15:34 | (presenter is using old-fashioned pencil with paper notebook ! ) |
| 15:53 | interview continues with Manit |
| 16:00 | Manit says that the linked shell casings were found in a stream (they were apparently a prop used in presentations to villagers; unfortunately the video gives them undue prominence). |
| 16:21 | Manit went to Huai Hia ("airplane stream" in local dialect), not knowing that it was a forbidden area --- villagers never went into that area out of fear. |
| 17:01 | end interview in office; mountains, rice paddies, children with model planes |
| 17:38 | interview with Boonyen Khantakrua |
| 18:13 | subtitles start because Boonyen is talking local dialect |
| 18:14 | Boonyen's title: "Sai Tai villager, Lampang Province" |
| 18:47 | Presenter says that the Minco crash site was not found accidentally, but rather by the efforts of three people whom she then introduces, in order by highlighting: Daniel Jackson, US Air Force Hak Hakanson, retired American, local resident Sakpinit Promthep, retired RTAF officer |
| 19:18 | Hak Hakanson, title: "world war historian" |
| 19:51 | ". . . the sources are dying . . .": perhaps conveniently jibes with the TPBS series which is titled "the truth is not dead", of which this episode on missing airmen is just a part. |
| 20:10 | 1Lt Franklin H McKinney, USAAF pilot (killed in crash of his F-5 (P-38) on 05 Nov 1944 near Mae Kua village) |
| 20:18 | image is reversed (see number on tail) |
| 20:30 | map, part of China: Hupeh, Hunan Provinces locating other planes lost that had been based in China (but not locating McKinney's) |
| 20:37 | Sakpinit talking about search for lost aircraft |
| 21:11 | views of RTAF documents about McKinney's crash |
| 21:14 | (book: Daniel Jackson, The Forgotten Squadron, open to pp 96-97), presenter talking |
| 21:37 | To Mae Kua |
| 21:43 | GPS unit showing Highway AH2, aka Thai Highway 1, connecting Bangkok with Mae Sai in the very northernmost area of Thailand |
| 21:51 | Ms Fong Inma talking (subtitles start because she speaks local dialect); sitting beside her is one of her sons. |
| 21:51 | Shelter north side of paddy where McKinney crashed (not where we lunched) |
| 22:11 | Ms Fong Inma, title "Mae Kua villager, Lampang Province" (now 97) She says that it happened around 3 p.m. I heard a very loud noise, I imagined that the plane crashed and the pilot was thrown from his plane. People who first got there said just the upper part of the pilot was left, no legs, no arms. Authorities and villagers made a fire and burned him right there. |
| 22:39 | landmark palm tree at right front; Ms Fong's son talking |
| 22:52 | nice drone view! Circling same landmark palm tree |
| 23:02 | Tawee Inma, title: "Mae Kua villager, Lampang Province" --- the son accompanying Ms Fong in interview. |
| 23:10 | Crotalaria flowers |
| 23:28 | Sakpinit talking, with RTAF docs about McKinney crash |
| 24:27 | McKinney photo, presenter talking |
| 24:40 | Minco's MACR in background, then Sak R's book . . . |
| 25:04 | Sakpinit talking; explaining air battle over Lampang |
| 25:25 | Sakpinit here corrects numbers of US aircraft in air battle: 16, not 21. |
| 25:29 | animation about Minco shootdown, presenter talking |
| 25:53 | Sakpinit talking |
| 26:52 | Sakpinit talking ends; drone view of mountain, paddies, presenter talking |
| 27:42 | Hak talking |
| 28:03 | mountain scenery . . . presenter talking |
| 28:48 | end talking |
| 28:50 | credits |