The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
South Vietnam, c. 1969. Under basic conditions in a Vietnamese hospital, Vietnamese patients lie on thin mattresses on old metal-frame beds which are crammed close together in the hospital ward. A woman lies on the bed (left) as an intravenous drip is fed into her from a bottle and tube mounted over the end of the bed. A mosquito net attached to a frame consisting of two tree branches lies rolled up at the foot of the bed (right). One of a pair of crutches leans against the wall beneath the window, while the other stands in the corner behind the door (right). (Donor anonymous) (Original 35mm transparency housed in AWM Archive Store)
Vung Tau, South Vietnam, c. 1969. A timber hut provides simple accommodation probably for medical officers (MOs) serving at the 1st Australian Field Hospital. The beds are spartan pieces of furniture
South Vietnam, c. 1969. A Bell 47G Sioux helicopter of No. 161 Recce Flight, Australian Army, hovers over what may be a Fire Support Base (FSB) under construction in the Vietnamese countryside. A pile
Sister Maureen Spicer, a member of the Australian Civilian Surgical/Medical Team, checking the intravenous drip of a wounded Vietnamese lying on a stretcher on the floor of the recovery ward after sur
Soldier in uniform lies on a stretcher bead with a bucket to the right of the bed and a drip and stand feeding a saline solution into the patient's right arm.
South Vietnam, c. 1969. A land mine lies discarded on the side of a dirt road shortly after its discovered and disarmed (or 'deloused') by Australian soldiers. (Donor anonymous) (Original 35mm transpa
An East Timorese woman, suffering from malaria, is comforted by her husband as she rests on a bed in a ward at a Medecins Sans Frontierea (MSF) hospital. She has an intravenous drip attached to her ar
