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- Title
- Flight Technician Program 1994, View 30
- Description
- A lock news helicopter is parked next to a hanger.
- Subjects
- helicopters, airfields
- Local Identifier
- 16-1699ZD
- Title
- Airplanes at the Aviation Training Building, View 2
- Description
- A small light weight helicopter inside the Aviation Training Building.
- Subjects
- helicopters, Vocational education
- Local Identifier
- 16-0125B
- Title
- Airport Campus Engines, Aircraft and Equipment 2015
- Description
- Color photographs of aircraft, engines and various of equipment in a hanger and classroom.
- Subjects
- Airplane engines, Airplane equipment, Airplane propellers, jet aircraft, helicopters
- Local Identifier
- 17-0493
- Title
- Airplanes at the Aviation Training Building
- Description
- Color photographs of airplanes and students at the Aviation Training Building.
- Subjects
- helicopters, Vocational education, Aviation mechanics (Science)
- Local Identifier
- 16-0125
- Title
- Wrecked Light Observation Helicopter
- Personal Creator
- Milt Brown
- Description
- Wrecked Light Observation Helicopter (LOH) being lifted away. Photo by Milt Brown.
- Subjects
- soldiers, Light Observation Helicopters (LOH), helicopters, damage
- Local Identifier
- 16-3033
- Title
- Helicopter Crew Wait to be Called on a Mission
- Personal Creator
- Tom Everhart
- Description
- Waiting for a mission at Marine Base Vandergift. Photo by Tom Everhart
- Subjects
- helicopters, Huey helicopters, Iroquois Helicopters, soldiers, helicopter crews, missions, Army, Landing Zone (LZ)
- Local Identifier
- 16-3696
- Title
- Chinook Over Military Camp
- Personal Creator
- Milt Brown
- Description
- Chinook coming into a military camp. Photo by Milt Brown.
- Subjects
- soldiers, Chinook, helicopters, military camps
- Local Identifier
- 16-3007
- Title
- Castillo Preparing For The Huey
- Personal Creator
- Santos G. Castillo
- Description
- Santos G. Castillo, ready to put on his helmet on and get on the Huey helicopter. Photo by Santos G. Castillo.
- Subjects
- soldiers, helicopters, Huey helicopters, helmets
- Local Identifier
- 16-3024
- Title
- Attack Helicopter Artillery
- Personal Creator
- Milt Brown
- Description
- Rockets and mini guns of an attack helicopter. Photo by Milt Brown.
- Subjects
- artillery, rockets, miniguns, attack aircraft, helicopters, military aircraft
- Local Identifier
- 16-3011
- Title
- Air Assault Training
- Personal Creator
- Milt Brown
- Description
- Little Bears providing air assault training for Tropic Lightning Soldiers. Photo by Milt Brown.
- Subjects
- military aircraft, soldiers, helicopters, Huey helicopters, troops, artillery
- Local Identifier
- 16-3003
- Title
- Bring Wounded In From A Huey
- Personal Creator
- Milt Brown
- Description
- Bringing in wounded from a Huey helicopter. 3rd Brigade (TF), 25th ID - Duc Pho 1967. Photo by Milt Brown.
- Subjects
- soldiers, helicopters, Huey helicopters, Wounded in action (WIA), military bases
- Local Identifier
- 16-3051
- Title
- Assault Helicopter Company's UH-1B Gunship
- Personal Creator
- Milt Brown
- Description
- UH-1B Gunship from the 119th Assault Helicopter Company, Camp Holloway, 1966. Photo by Milt Brown.
- Subjects
- attack aircraft, military aircraft, gunships, helicopters
- Local Identifier
- 16-3038
- Title
- The Squadron Worked In Conjunction With Aircraft Of The Royal Australian Navy Helicopter Flight Vietnam and United States Forces
- Personal Creator
- Unknnown
- Description
- In November 1967 a 9 Squadron Iroquois lands to pick up members of the 7th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR) during operation Santa Fe, a grueling three week-long operation through inhospitable country some 23 kilometres from the Task Force Base at Nui Dat. A second RAAF service began in Vietnam on 3 May 1966 when an advance party from No. 9 Squadron arrived at Vung Tau. The squadron’s helicopters arrived on 6 June aboard HMAS Sydney and were flown to Vung Tau that day before moving to Nui Dat at the end of the month. No. 9 Squadron’s helicopters carried out a variety of roles in Vietnam. Most important were the transport of infantry and logistic support, but the helicopters were also used to drop leaflets over enemy territory. Some were also used in aerial spraying to rid the base of mosquitoes and, more aggressively, to kill vegetative growth around the base and to destroy agricultural plots in Viet Cong territory, denying the enemy a source of food. Just two months after the squadron’s arrival in Vietnam, two pilots were called on to drop ammunition to the beleaguered troops of D Company, 6th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, at Long Tan. Flying in appalling weather at tree-top height; they dropped ammunition to the soldiers on the ground through driving rain and under intense Viet Cong fire. The squadron operated again that night, after the battle, to retrieve the wounded, guided only by the light emanating from the open hatches of armoured personnel carriers. No. 9 Squadron was re-equipped with larger Iroquois helicopters in 1967. Now equipped with 16 helicopters, the squadron worked in conjunction with aircraft of the Royal Australian Navy Helicopter Flight Vietnam and United States forces, on the dangerous tasks of transporting men to and from patrols and evacuating wounded soldiers from the battlefield. On some occasions these operations ended with the death of helicopter crewmen and the destruction of the aircraft. The last members of 9 Squadron left Vung Tau on 17 December 1971. Six squadron members were killed on operations, and another man, attached to the squadron from No. 1 Operational Support Unit, was also killed.
- Subjects
- task forces, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), transport vessels, transport aircraft, infantries, ammunition for small arms, ammunition for artillery, ammunition, soldiers, wounded, armored personnel carriers, battles, Royal Australian Navy Helicopter Flight Vietnam (RANHFV), patrol, aircraft, destruction, Iroquois Helicopters, United States Forces, helicopters, Her Majesty's Australian Ship (HMAS)
- Local Identifier
- 16-4620
- Title
- Wounded Soldier is Unloaded From an RAAF Iroquois Chopper
- Personal Creator
- Unknown
- Description
- At the 8th Field Ambulance Dustoff Pad at Nui Dat, a wounded soldier is unloaded from an RAAF Iroquois chopper which has winched him out of the jungle. Identified, left to right: A19033 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Kerin Williams of Newcastle NSW (carrying the plasma bottle above the stretcher); 43919 Private Charles Kerr Storie, 8th Field Ambulance, of SA; 4410808 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Albertus Leonardus (Bert) Kuijpers, of the ACT; and 1411225 L Cpl Trevor Owen Skinner, 1st Australian Reinforcement Unit, of Redcliffe, Qld. This Dustoff Mission resulted from an enemy contact between 274 Regiment, a Viet Cong unit, and A Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR) members at the battle of Suoi Chau Pha (Operation Ballarat) in which six Australians were killed and 14 wounded on 6 August 1967.
- Subjects
- wounded, battlefields, photojournalism, helicopters, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
- Local Identifier
- 16-4481
- Title
- U.S. Helicopter Crewchief Watches Ground Movements of Vietnamese Troops
- Personal Creator
- Unknown
- Description
- Helmeted U.S. Helicopter Crewchief, holding carbine, watches ground movements of Vietnamese troops from above during a strike against Viet Cong Guerrillas in the Mekong Delta Area, January 2, 1963. The communist Viet Cong claimed victory in the continuing struggle in Vietnam after they shot down five U.S. helicopters. An American officer was killed and three other American servicemen were injured in the action.
- Subjects
- helicopters, carbines, automatic rifles, deltas, Viet Cong
- Local Identifier
- 16-4132
- Title
- An Iroquois Flies Supplies To An Australian Patrol In The Nui Dinh Mountains
- Personal Creator
- Unknown
- Description
- An Iroquois flies supplies to an Australian patrol in the Nui Dinh mountains. In rugged terrain helicopters provided the only means of resupplying men in the field but 9 Squadron flew resupply missions to soldiers in all sorts of situations throughout the war.
- Subjects
- helicopters, patrol, soldiers, supplies, suppliers, missions
- Local Identifier
- 16-4613
- Title
- Two Members of V-Company Use Smoke to Signal Location of Wounded During Operation Coburg
- Personal Creator
- Keith Williams
- Description
- Preparing for a casualty evacuation, two members of V-Company, a New Zealand component of the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Battalion, use smoke to signal the location of men wounded during Operation Coburg to a dustoff helicopter. Coburg took place in the border area of Bien Hoa and Long Khanh provinces, to the north-west of Phuoc Tuy. In the foreground is Corporal W. Vautier, of the ANZAC Battalion. February 1968. Vietnam Veteran comment: "I used to go down to the field hospital, this was at Vung Tau, and some of the fellows down there. They really would have been better off dead. It was an ironic tragedy, if that's not a tautology, that they could rescue people that had been badly wounded and have them on the operating theatre within twenty minutes of being hit. Now most of those blokes would have died, in any other conflict. They wouldn't have survived… There were some terribly wounded blokes." Photo by Keith Williams.
- Subjects
- helicopters, smoke, Wounded in action (WIA), ANZAC Battalion
- Local Identifier
- 16-4463
- Title
- 1st Cavalry Assaulting From a Helicopter I–corps
- Personal Creator
- Gilles Carron
- Description
- Unit of the 1st Cavalry Assaulting from a Helicopter I–corps, December 1967. Photo by Gilles Carron
- Subjects
- 1st Cavalry Division, I Corps (South Vietnam), soldiers, Iroquois Helicopters, helicopters
- Local Identifier
- 16-4586
- Title
- Cobra Helicopter Piloted By Mr. Kipper
- Personal Creator
- Mariano Guzman
- Description
- Cobra helicopter with Mr. Kiper, Pilot, another soldier. Photo by Mariano Guzman who served as one of D-Troop's "Blues" while serving with D-Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. 1969-1970. courtesy of Mike Gustin.
- Subjects
- military aircraft, pilots, helicopters, attack aircraft
- Local Identifier
- 16-3992
- Title
- Huey Military Helicopter on the Ground
- Personal Creator
- Bill Foster
- Description
- Photo by Bill Foster who served with the "Blues" D Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. Nov. 1970-Aug. 1971. Courtesy of Mike Gustin.
- Subjects
- helicopters, Iroquois Helicopters
- Local Identifier
- 16-3988