The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A US Army Caribou aircraft destroyed during a Viet Cong (VC) rocket attack on the Vung Tau airfield. At 1.00 am seventeen 122 mm rockets and eleven 75mm recoilless rifle rounds were fired from Long Song Island, about nine kilometres north of Vung Tau, followed by another three rockets about four hours later. The damaged Caribou was parked adjacent to the RAAF maintenance hangar.
A burning fuel tank in the bulk storage area adjacent to the Vung Tau military airfield at about 9.30 am, some thirty minutes after an enemy attack. 300 000 gallons of fuel were lost in the blaze cau
A burning fuel tank in the bulk storage area adjacent to the Vung Tau military airfield at about 9.30 am, some thirty minutes after an enemy attack. 300 000 gallons of fuel were lost in the blaze cau
General shots at Vung Tau base and the delta regions of Phuoc Tuy Province South Vietnam. Air America aircraft taking off from the short runway at Vung Tau airbase. Also shown are US Caribou aircraft
The remains of a CH-47 Chinook gun ship from the 53rd Aviation Detachment, United States (US) Army, after a rotor strike with a stationary transport Chinook, (a slick), in a taxiing accident at the US
The remains of a CH-47 Chinook gun ship from the 53rd Aviation Detachment, United States (US) Army, after a rotor strike with a stationary transport Chinook, (a slick), in a taxiing accident at the US
Scene 1 17-26 A U S Army U21, Ute, electronic battlefield surveillance aircraft taxiing out from the refuelling point at Luscombe Airfield, Niu Dat, Vietnam. Australian Pilatus Porter aircraft in
