Construction of Ubon air base (DPR RAAF stock shots)

Accession Number F10392
Collection type Film
Measurement 8 min 12 sec
Object type To be confirmed
Physical description 16mm/b&w/silent
Place made Thailand: Ubon
Date made 1962?
Conflict Period 1960-1969
Copyright

Item copyright: Commonwealth of Australia copyright

Description

Ubon, North East Thailand circa 1962? aerial view RAAF flight line and technical area at Ubon. [Reel 1] Aerial view of RAAF tent camp. Aerial view site of new hut with cookhouse and messes at centre and sleeping quarters and offices at either side. Other huts being built. Aerial view Ubon township.[ Reel 2] Thai men and girls laying cement. Sgt John Hall (left), Swaren, Indian interpreter and Corporal Col Robb of Narrogin, WA at site. Thai men and girls mixing cement and loading buckets. Thai girls with buckets of cement. Swaren walks through mud and water at site. Huts being built lumber in foreground. Thais setting up hangar truss with help of crane. Thais on truss. Warrant Officer (WO) Tim Gaywood, of Lakes Entrance, VIC, directs operations with Thais and crane in background. Close up of WO Gaywood. Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Charlie Lamb, of Perth, WA boring hole in purlin - pan up to Thais on truss. Squadron Leader John Lessels buys ice lolly from small Tahi girt at site. Thai workers lift truss to hangar frame. LAC Lamb and WO Gaywood talk to Thai worker. [Reel 3] Cutaway of 79 Fighter Squadron sign (Sabre in background). Sabre flight line. Pilot and groundcrew working on Sabre. Cutaway of RAAF flag and OC's pennant at mast. Squadron Leader John Lessels, of Toorak (Vic.) left, CO of RAAF construction unit at Ubon, and Sgt John Hall, of Bundaberg (Qld), consult plan of building project (RAAF Contingent Ubon sign in Background. Lessels and Hall walk past tents to jeep. Lessels and hall drive off in jeep pan to right. Jeep arrives at building site, Lessels and Hall walk to drawing- board in open. Lessels and Hall at drawing board. Thai carpenters fitting ceiling board. Pan right - hut building to cement-laying.

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