Inspecting a captured Viet Cong (VC) weapon taken by Australian troops during Operation Santa Fe ...

Place Asia: Vietnam
Accession Number VN/67/0143/13
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Ward, Barrie Thomas Burrill
Place made Vietnam: Phuoc Tuy Province
Date made 1967
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Inspecting a captured Viet Cong (VC) weapon taken by Australian troops during Operation Santa Fe are left to right: 57574 Aircraftman (AC) Roderic Mervyn (Rod) McKinnon, assistant crewman; 222082 Pilot Officer (PO) Peter Alexander Davidson, of Newcastle, NSW. The No 9 Squadron, RAAF, helicopters have been supporting the Australians during the big combined operation.

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