An Australian soldier, wounded in the chest by a Viet Cong sniper during Operation Santa Fe, is ...

Place Asia: Vietnam, Vung Tau Special Zone, Vung Tau
Accession Number VN/67/0143/21
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Ward, Barrie Thomas Burrill
Place made Vietnam: Phuoc Tuy Province
Date made 1967
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

An Australian soldier, wounded in the chest by a Viet Cong sniper during Operation Santa Fe, is given medical attention by a RAAF crewman as he is rushed to 8 Field Ambulance in Vung Tau by a helicopter from No 9 Squadron.