The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Body bags containing the dead bodies or partial remains of deceased American or allied soldiers lie stacked up on stands in a reefer (refrigerator) box at the entrance to the In-Processing Section of the United States Army Mortuary complex at Tan Son Nhut Airbase. With a capacity of 1,800 cubic feet, the reefer box was used to store human remains until mortuary staff had time to deal with them. The US Army Mortuary had five such storage boxes to enable it to cope with sudden upsurges in the numbers of fatal casualties. The In-Processing Section housed the x-ray room, the autopsy room and the preparation or embalming room. (Original 35mm half-frame transparency held in AWM Archive Store)
A body bag containing the dead body or partial remains of a soldier lies on a stretcher in a reefer (refrigerator) box at the entrance to the In-Processing Section of the United States Army Mortuary c
A line of walk-in reefer (refrigerator) boxes at the United States Army Mortuary complex at Tan Son Nhut Airbase. The boxes were used for storing the dead bodies or partial remains of deceased America
The supplies area of the United States Army Mortuary complex at Tan Son Nhut Airbase. In the foreground (left) are dismantled reefer (refrigerator) boxes in which the dead bodies or partial remains of
Front of the United States Army Mortuary complex at Tan Son Nhut Airbase. The three buildings are (left to right): the Headquarters building; the Identity (ID) Processing Section; the Embalming and Au
The flight line delivery truck used by the United States Army Mortuary at Tan Son Nhut Airbase stands in the mortuary grounds beside an enormous stack of metal transfer cases in which the dead bodies
Long Binh, Vietnam. 1971-02-02. Interior of a walk-in reefer (refrigerator) box at the United States Army's Graves Registration Collection and Evacuation Point (GRCEP). The box, with a capacity of 1,8