The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
F237162 Corporal Jenny Brauer, Air Dispatch Service team, Australian Force Communications Unit (FCU) holds a clipboard as she prepares to reboard a UN Mi-8 helicopter at Battambang Airfield in late January 1992. 183584 Bombardier H J Hooker, FCU, and an unidentified Australian walk away immediately behind her, while a civilian, possibly one of the contract Russian helicopter pilots, stands in the middle distance next to another UN Mi-8. In the far distance to the left of three large hangars there are a number of UN trucks and a Russian Mi-26 'Halo' transport helicopter, all painted in the traditional white UN finish. United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) helicopters made regular supply and mail runs to UNTAC bases, but found the northwest of Cambodia potentially dangerous as a number of helicopters were hit by ground fire, usually when travelling close to Khmer Rouge controlled areas.
On a street outside Cambodia's National Museum in Phnom Penh, a cyclo (also known as a trishaw) driver dozes in the heat whilst awaiting business as a group of foreigners (possibly non government agen
F237162 Corporal Jenny Brauer, Air Dispatch Service team, Australian Force Communications Unit (FCU) hands mailbags to 183584 Bombardier H J Hooker, Australian FCU, from the doorway of a Soviet Mi-8 h
A Russian Mi-26 'Halo' helicopter, serial UN 73, framed by the tail section and retractable tailskid of another on the runway at Battambang airfield. This massive 33.8 metre long cargo transport helic
Members of the Malaysian 1 Royal Ranger Regiment (1 RRR) checking their equipment after disembarking from a massive 33.8 metre long Russian Mi-26 'Halo' transport helicopter at Battambang airfield in
Members of the Malaysian 1 Royal Ranger Regiment (1 RRR) lay out two Heckler and Koch HK21 General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMG) and a number of M-16 rifles after disembarking from a massive 33.8 metre
Members of Indonesia's first contingent to the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) relax in the cargo compartment of a Russian-built Mi-26 'Halo' (MiL) helicopter on the Battamba
Sergeant (Sgt) Jodie Clark, Australian Force Communications Unit (FCU) with six homeless children from the town of Battambang, sitting on the forward steps of one of the two Russian-built Mi-26 'Halo'
