RAN Helicopter Flight Vietnam (RANHFV) is attached to the US Army 135th Assault Helicopter ...

Accession Number NAVY21077
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film original negative 120 safety base
Maker RAN Public Relations
Place made Vietnam: Bien Hoa Province
Date made March 1970
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

RAN Helicopter Flight Vietnam (RANHFV) is attached to the US Army 135th Assault Helicopter Company (AHC), at the Bearcat Base in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam. Here an unidentified RANHFV serviceman, wearing a beard, performs maintenance work on a helicopter at the base. The serviceman, who is one of 46 RANHFV personnel working with the Americans, has a large tattoo of a peacock and the places Manila and Bangkok, on his left arm.

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