Medical air evacuation

Place Asia: Korea
Accession Number ART40301
Collection type Art
Measurement Framed: 132 cm x 157.8 cm x 27 kg; Unframed: 96.3 cm x 122.2 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on hardboard
Maker Hele, Ivor
Place made Australia: South Australia, Aldinga
Date made 1953
Conflict Korea, 1950-1953
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Australian airmen assisting in a medical air evacuation. The wounded are being carried on stretchers from an amubulance vehicle to a waiting aircraft to be flown from Kimpo to Japan for treatment at one of the Australian base hospitals at either Kure or Iwakuni.