The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
SOUTH VIETNAM. 1966-08. GROUND CREW MEMBERS OF THE 161ST (INDEPENDENT) RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHT CHANGE THE OIL ON ONE OF THEIR UNIT'S SIOUX HELICOPTERS AT VUNG TAU AIRBASE. LEFT IS CORPORAL JIM JORDAN OF ENOGGERA, QLD, WITH CRAFTSMAN NEIL BENNETT OF WINCHELSEA, VIC. IN THE BACKGROUND AT LEFT IS AN AMERICAN CHINOOK HELICOPTER.
Vung Tau, South Vietnam. 1966. The aircraft dispersal area at the airstrip from which 161st (Independent) Reconnaissance Flight operates its Bell Sioux helicopters. In the background are CH-47 Chinook
VUNG TAU, VIETNAM. 1966-08. MAINTENANCE ON A SIOUX HELICOPTER OF 161 (INDEPENDENT) RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHT BY CRAFTSMAN REX WILLIS OF MILDURA, VIC (LEFT), AND CORPORAL (CPL) DON PATTERSON OF IPSWICH, QL
Vung Tau, Vietnam. 1966-08. Maintenance on a Sioux helicopter of 161 (Independent) Reconnaissance Flight by Craftsman Rex Willis of Mildura, Vic (left) and Corporal (Cpl) Don Patterson of Ipswich, Qld
Vung Tau, Vietnam. 1966-08. Instrument panel check on a Sioux helicopter of 161 (Independent) Reconnaissance Flight by Sergeant Peter Bootes of Grovelly, Qld.
Vung Tau, South Vietnam. 29 March 1967. Australian Army light aircraft. From left they are a US Army Chinook, a Cessna spotter aircraft, and a Bell Sioux helicopter (both from the 161st (Independent)
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. 1968-10. Corporal John Cameron of Padstow, NSW (left), and Craftsman Bruno Kwas of Cairns, Qld, check the condition of the mast head below the rotor of a Sioux helicopter numbe
