The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vung Tau, Vietnam. c 1966. A group of Australian and US soldiers in a boat at Vung Tau jetty, prior to their departure to a rural area of Vung Tau to set up a Medical Civil Aid Project (MEDCAP) clinic. Identified are, standing: A55472 Sergeant Douglas (Doug) Oliver, RAAF, a medical orderly (foreground), the Principal Air Chaplain (left), Jerry W, Bob, a US Army medic, and A221951 Anthony Michael (Tony) Reynolds-Huntley, an RAAF cook (right). Sitting, left to right: O43394 Ian 'Doc" Favilla, RAAF (holding a beer can), Mike Chapman (probably O56051 Pilot Officer Michael Arthur Chapman, RAAF), and Ron Jones, an Australian medic (wearing a hat). There are three unidentified Vietnamese men sitting in the background. Note the containers on the boat, one has a kangaroo in an outline of Australia painted on it and the other has a red cross.
Vung Tau, Vietnam. c 1966. Vietnamese people gathered around Ian (Doc) Favilla, RAAF (seated) and Sergeant Doug Oliver, RAAF, a medical orderly at a Medical Civil Aid Project (MEDCAP) clinic. Australi
Members of the RAAF Medical and Civic Action Programme (Medcap) aboard a South Vietnamese Naval junk, returning from a mission to Long Hai, a village north of Vung Tau. Sitting in the centre, wearing
A medical Civic Aid Program (Medcap) team from the RAAF became the first team to visit Long Son, an island six miles north of Vung Tau, which had been the scene of recent Viet Cong (VC) activity. The
A56051 Sergeant (Sgt) Michael Arthur (Mike) Chapman, RAAF Service Policeman, of Cloverdale, WA, washing a child, helped by A57203 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Lewis James (Lew) Bock, of Busselton, WA, a
A221951 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Anthony Michael (Tony) Reynolds-Huntley, of Killara, NSW, in his position as door gunner on an RAAF Iroquois helicopter. LAC Reynolds-Huntley enlisted as a cook, and
A221951 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Anthony Michael (Tony) Reynolds-Huntley, of Killara, NSW, in his position as door gunner on an RAAF Iroquois helicopter. LAC Reynolds-Huntley enlisted as a cook, and
