The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Phan Rang area, Vietnam July 1970. Uncut United States 221st Signal Company film of RAAF civil aid program. Shows RAAF truck and personnel arriving at hamlet Ap Suoi-Gieng. RAAF Chaplain Dave Pritchard meets with Vietnamese officials. RAAF men unload rolls of barbed wire. Vietnamese soldiers unload wire and star pickets. RAAF cinematographer F/O Adler filming. Vietnamese children working in the fields. Phan Rang, sign for 2 Squadron RAAF. RAAF cinematographer filming RAAF trucks leaving base. Trucks on road. Entering hamlet. Iroquois helicopters fly low. Children in uniform heading for fields. Girls planting banana plants. RAAF cinematograher at work filming river crossing. Vietnamese planting bananas.
The other side of the war in Vietnam - providing civil aid to those people whose lives have been disrupted by the war. With finance from the Australian Government; No. 2 (Canberra bomber) Squadron RAA
Squadron Leader Peter Bladen took this film while serving as Medical Officer with 2 Squadron RAAF operating Canberra bombers. 2 Squadron was attached to the 35th Tactical Fighter Wing USAF based at Ph
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
