The Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopter XS128, coded F/B of 845 Naval Air Squadron in flight over the jungle at Nanga Gaat, Sarawak
A distant starboard side view of the Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopter XS128, coded F/B of 845 Naval Air Squadron in flight over the jungle at Nanga Gaat. The aircraft was named Fred Flintstone by the squadron. Nanga Gaat is at the confluence of the Sungai Gaat and the Batang Baleh, Sarawak. Nanga Gaat was used as an advanced base for an infantry battalion as well as for the Fleet Air Arm during the Indonesian confrontation which ran from 20 January 1963 to 11 August 1966.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7771/5 |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Date made: | October 1964 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 190 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |