Portrait of New Zealand pilot, Lieutenant (Lt) Steel at the controls of a Bell 47 Sioux ...

Accession Number P07256.022
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker Wood, Brian
Place made Vietnam: Phuoc Tuy Province
Date made 1971
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
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Description

Portrait of New Zealand pilot, Lieutenant (Lt) Steel at the controls of a Bell 47 Sioux helicopter over Phuoc Tuy Province. Lt Steel was later shot down over Long Son Island and spent a harrowing night surrounded by Viet Cong before being rescued the next day.

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