Denis Stanley Gibbons as a photographer/correspondent for John Fairfax and Sons Ltd, South Vietnam 1966-1967, interviewed by Major Barrie Gillman

Accession Number S03521
Collection type Sound
Measurement 4 min 21 sec
Object type Oral history
Physical description 1/4 inch sound tape reel; KODAK; 3 3/4 ips/9.5 cm.s; mono; 7 inch
Maker Gibbons, Denis Stanley
Gillman, Barrie Winston Farleigh
Date made June 1967
Access Open
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
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Description

Gillman speaks of the role of journalists and photographers in the Vietnam Press Corps including their working conditions and rates of pay. Gibbons speaks of his four months in 1st Australian Task Force and Cambodian border combat zones and with the United States 7th Fleet in the Gulf of Tonkin as well as his impressions of Australians in the field.
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