P02320.010 Accession Number: P02320.010

Description

Vung Tau, South Vietnam, c. 1969. Two medical orderlies carry a wounded Australian soldier on a stretcher from a ward of the 1st Australian Field Hospital and towards the rear doors of a RAAF medical evacuation bus. The vehicle will take the wounded man to a waiting RAAF Lockheed C-130E Hercules aeromedical evacuation aircraft (not in view) which will fly him home to Australia. (Donor anonymous) (Original 35mm transparency housed in AWM Archive Store)

Details

Accession Number
P02320.010
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Slide mount
Physical Description
Support: Acetate
Format: 35mm
Brand: Kodak - Kodachrome
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright unknown - orphaned work

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