Portrait of (probably) 110302 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Bruce David Searle (left) and 18813 Flt ...

Accession Number P05581.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Film original negative other
Maker Neil, Graham Wallace
Unknown
Place made Vietnam: Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh Province, Cu Chi
Date made c 1970
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Status to be assessed

Description

Portrait of (probably) 110302 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Bruce David Searle (left) and 18813 Flt Lt Richard Brook Gregory (right), standing in front of an OV-10A Bronco twin engined aircraft from the 19th Tactical Air Support Squadron (19th TASS), United States Air Force (USAF). The aircraft is parked in a revetment at Cu Chi airbase. This aircraft has red propeller spinners, denoting a support aircraft for the 1st United States Infantry Division (Big Red One). Some of the seven tube 2.75 inch rocket pods are visible on the underside of the aircraft.

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