An Iroquois helicopter with call sign 376 from No. 9 Squadron RAAF delivers 44-gallon drums of ...

Accession Number P04666.101
Collection type Photograph
Object type Digital file
Maker Gibbons, Denis Stanley
Place made Vietnam: Phuoc Tuy Province
Date made September 1970
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
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Description

An Iroquois helicopter with call sign 376 from No. 9 Squadron RAAF delivers 44-gallon drums of fuel to Night Defensive Position (NDP) Beverley about 30 kilometres east of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) at Nui Dat. The chopper is carrying the barrels in a heavy underslung cargo net. The fuel is to be used by engineers from 1 Field Squadron RAE to set fire to enemy rice padis and vegetable gardens as part of Operation Massey Harris, a food-denial operation.

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