Graham Edward McInerney as a photographer for the Adelaide Advertiser, South Vietnam 1968-1969, interviewed by David Bradbury

Accession Number S03281
Collection type Sound
Measurement 42 min 6 sec
Object type Oral history
Physical description 1/4 inch sound tape reel; brand unknown; 7 1/2 ips/19 cm.s; mono; 7 inch
Maker McInerney, Graham Edward
Bradbury, David
Date made 1978
Access Open
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
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Description

McInerney speaks of accompanying the 9th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment (9 RAR) to South Vietnam on board HMAS Sydney, November 1968; personal safety in South Vietnam; a bombing run in an F4 Phantom jet; a river patrol; being ambushed and wounded with United States 3rd Marine Division; having Horst Faas as his mentor; the aims and objectives of his work; the suffering of the Vietnamese people; drug-taking amongst some United States cameramen.
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