The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The 49 members of the No 35 Caribou Squadron, RAAF, Technical Flight are working around the clock at Vung Tau airbase to keep the aircraft constantly flying. The heavily committed Caribou aircraft needs constant servicing, and because they are flying all day, much of the work is being done at night. The seven Caribou in the squadron have flown a total of 150,000 hours since their arrival in Vietnam. Three ground crewmen of No 35 Caribou Squadron, RAAF, replace exhaust tubes blown off a Caribou while in flight. They are left to right: 222191 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Raymond Arthur (Ray) Forrester, of Budgewoi, NSW; 32589 Corporal (Cpl) Walter Thomas (Wally) Lee, of Ballarat, Vic; 218720 Cpl Maxwell George Turner, of Toronto, NSW. All are aircraft metal workers.
The 49 members of the No 35 Caribou Squadron, RAAF, Technical Flight are working around the clock at Vung Tau airbase to keep the aircraft constantly flying. The heavily committed Caribou aircraft ne
A33700 Corporal (Cpl) Barry Thomas Ingate, of Derby, WA (left), No 35 Squadron Engineering Officer, O25686 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Herbert Walter (Wally) Solomons, of Tamworth (centre) and A221961
14226 Sergeant (Sgt) James Alexander (Jim) McNaught, of St Marys, NSW, (left) and 216717 Corporal (Cpl) Keith Henry Bowden, of Blacktown, NSW, crewmen with No 35 Squadron, RAAF, assist the aircraft ma
Two unidentified Australian soldiers strapped to stretchers inside a No 35 Squadron, RAAF, Caribou aircraft, looking from the inside of the aircraft back to the ambulance. There are a number of unide
The ground crewmen of No 35 Squadron, are the men who keep the squadron’s Caribou aircraft flying. In the squadron’s hangar at Vung Tau airfield is engine fitter A221984 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Lawr
Two unidentified RAAF crewmen with No 35 Squadron, rolling drums of ‘riot control agent’ toward the cargo door of a Caribou aircraft before it is dropped over jungle somewhere in South Vietnam.