Interview with Graham McInerney (Frontline out takes)

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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
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

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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