The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
US Army fitter watches as three RAAF airframe fitters repair a damaged mainplane of a Caribou at Vung Tau. The aircraft had been recovered after being damaged on landing on a strip in the Mekong Delta and major repairs were being carried out on the base after the aircraft had been patched up temporarily to fly home. The RAAF men are from left to right: 12058 Corporal (Cpl) Francis Joseph (Frank) Rosello, of Injune, Qld; 6879 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) John Cameron Evans, airframe fitter of Levendale, Hobart, Tas; 219407 Cpl Ronald William (Ron) Tolman, airframe fitter of Blacktown, NSW.
219407 Corporal Ronald William (Ron) Tolman, airframe fitter of Blacktown, NSW is helped by locally employed Vietnamese as he uses a measuring gauge to test the correct functioning of the Caribou wing
Three of the RAAF (R.T.F.V) men who were responsible for the recent successful recovery of a damaged RAAF Caribou (A4-173) from a delta airstrip (Hei Yen) near where Viet Cong forces were attacking ni
A crowded corner of the hangar used by the RAAF at Vung Tau. The area is dominated by a mainplane from a Caribou which was damaged on landing on a small airstrip in the Mekong Delta, and which was te
Two RAAF and a US Army man who were among the team responsible for the recent successful recovery of a damaged Caribou from a delta airstrip, near where the Viet Cong (VC) forces were attacking nightl
Three RAAF technicians who helped to recover a crashed Caribou after it had been damaged when the nosewheel hit a mud filled hole in a dirt airstrip in the delta region. The RAAF team flew in, and wi
Two RAAF technicians and a US Army man who were among the group of men responsible for the recent successful recovery of a damaged Caribou from a delta airstrip, near where the Viet Cong (VC) forces w
