Accession Number | P11423.082 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Digital file |
Maker |
Booth, Mal |
Date made | November 2008 |
Conflict |
Iraq, 2003-2013 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial![]() |
Scene inside the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) C-130 Hercules aircraft travelling from ...
Description
Scene inside the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) C-130 Hercules aircraft travelling from Baghdad to Kuwait. Extra space onboard was offered to some US forces that were awaiting a later flight. One of a series of photographs taken in the Middle East Area of Operations (MEAO) by Mal Booth, Head of the Australian War Memorial's Research Centre, as part of the Memorial's Curators in the Field program. This program continues the Memorial's tradition of documenting Australia's experience of war, through observing the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and collecting records, photographs, oral histories and objects for the Memorial's National Collection.