The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vung Tau, Vietnam. c 1966. An escort junk carrying Australian and Vietnamese soldiers, which is escorting a boat of Australian and US soldiers on their way to the rural areas of Vung Tau to set up Medical Civil Aid Project (MEDCAP) clinics. In the narrower waterways, the escort junk dropped back to behind the boat it was escorting, to be in a better position to assess a situation if anything were to happen.
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
Vietnam. c 1966. Ensign Bichs (seated, left), a South Vietnamese Navy helmsman, looking through a peep hole, and a deck hand on board an escort junk used to escort members of the Medical Civilian Aid
Vietnam. c 1966. Members of the Army and RAAF organising a Medical Civil Aid Project (MEDCAP) clinic in Long Son market. Medical teams regularly set up clinics in rural areas, offering medical treatme
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
South Vietnam. 1967. A Civil Affairs officer, (left) and an Australian Army doctor and member of a Medical Civil Aid Program (MEDCAP) team with a group of Vietnamese children. A specially built traile
South Vietnam. 1967. A Civil Affairs officer, (left), and an Australian Army doctor and member of a Medical Civil Aid Program (MEDCAP) team with a group of Vietnamese children. A specially built trail
