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55978 Corporal (Cpl) John Thomas Cameron, airfield defence instructor, of Kalgoorlie, WA shows a Vietnamese soldier his American M14 automatic weapon on the rifle range near Vung Tau. The RAAF men had been practicing watched by Vietnamese ‘irregular’ soldiers, who afterwards swapped weapons and fired each others. Practice is essential because all RAAF men, administration, technical and aircrew regularly practise with weapons, and they carry arms at all times.
Vietnamese ‘irregular’ soldiers watch RAAF men as they reload rifle magazines during a practice shoot near Vung Tau. All RAAF men, administration, technical and aircrew regularly practice with weapon
While some of the RAAF men at Vung Tau were practising on the army rifle range they were joined by a group of Vietnamese ‘irregulars’ also wanting practice. Afterwards they swapped some of the weapon
An irregular Vietnamese soldier tries out a US Army automatic weapon, dubbed a ‘grease gun’ by the troops, during a RAAF practice shoot at the rifle range at Vung Tau. 310724 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt
An essential part of the RAAF force at Vung Tau, a linguist interviews one of the Vietnamese civilians working in the RAAF hangar at the base. He is 4230 Sergeant (Sgt) Robert John (Bob) Palmer, of L
Anxious South Vietnamese civilians crowd the rear of a RAAF Caribou waiting for the chance to climb aboard. This settlement in Hai Yen, South Vietnam, was completely cut off by road by the Viet Cong
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
