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Vung Tau, Vietnam. c.1967. RAAF personnel service a No.35 Squadron Caribou engine on the airfield. Note the drum-and-sandbag revetment in the centre background. The revetment was used for protection against the rocket and recoilless rifle attacks which were periodically mounted by the Viet Cong against the air base.
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 So
Tent quarters of the Officer Commanding 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR). Note the sandbag wall around the tent which were used as protection against anti-fragmentation mortar attac
219590 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) David William Marland, of Mascot, NSW, (centre) a pilot with No 35 Caribou Squadron, RAAF, explains the procedure used by the RAAF for parachutists jumping from Carib
219590 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) David William Marland, of Mascot, NSW, (centre) a pilot with No 35 Caribou Squadron, RAAF, explains the procedure used by the RAAF for parachutists jumping from Carib
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
A32840 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Leonard James (Len) Grinham, of Bendigo, Vic, No 35 Squadron, RAAF, (left) shows Vietnamese Nguyen Van Thu, how to fit spark plugs into a Caribou aircraft engine at th
