RAAF's Vietnam civil aid program

Accession Number F03309
Collection type Film
Measurement 16 min
Object type To be confirmed
Physical description 16mm/Colour/silent
Maker Reynolds
Place made Vietnam: Ninh Thuan Province, Phan Rang
Date made July 1970
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: External copyright

Description

Phan Rang area, Vietnam July 1970. Uncut United States 221st Signal Company film of RAAF civil aid program. Shows RAAF truck and personnel arriving at hamlet Ap Suoi-Gieng. RAAF Chaplain Dave Pritchard meets with Vietnamese officials. RAAF men unload rolls of barbed wire. Vietnamese soldiers unload wire and star pickets. RAAF cinematographer F/O Adler filming. Vietnamese children working in the fields. Phan Rang, sign for 2 Squadron RAAF. RAAF cinematographer filming RAAF trucks leaving base. Trucks on road. Entering hamlet. Iroquois helicopters fly low. Children in uniform heading for fields. Girls planting banana plants. RAAF cinematograher at work filming river crossing. Vietnamese planting bananas.

  • Video of RAAF's Vietnam civil aid program (video)