Between 1967 and 1971, most of the communists were defeated and towards the end of the Vietnam War, US forces moved their Indochinese military operations to Nakhon Phanom.[citation needed]
Ho Chi Minh resided between 1928 and 1931 at Ban Nachok, a small village on the road between the airbase and Nakhon Phanom. Both his home and a new modern museum are now open to the public