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Accession Number | F10551 |
Collection type | Film |
Measurement | 14 min 2 sec |
Object type | Interview |
Physical description | 16mm/colour (Eastman)/sound |
Maker |
McInerney, Graham Edward Bradbury, David |
Place made | Australia: South Australia, Adelaide |
Date made | 1978 |
Access | Open |
Conflict |
Period 1970-1979 Vietnam, 1962-1975 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial![]() |
Interview with Graham McInerney (Frontline out takes)
Graham Edward McInerny as a photographer for the Adelaide Advertiser describes being in a United States F4 Phantom fighter bomber on a bombing run, being overcome by G forces; combating fear in a war zone; an aside with an Australian officer before his first combat patrol; reasons for going to South Vietnam; cameramen filming during a fire fight; offer of 'pot' [cannabis] from a French correspondent - on refusal the French correspondent asked how he can go out on operations without taking some kind of drug; accompanying a US helicopter assault near the Cambodian border, being ambushed and wounded while fetching water; a sense of humour was needed; being robbed during a black market cash exchange; realization that there was no way he was going to get action pictures as this would be too dangerous - he was really looking for expressions of the people affected by the war; how he would go back to Vietnam, and advice for young journalists; US and Australian soldiers' attitudes.
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