Three Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopters on the ground at the forward operating base of 845 Naval Air Commando Squadron at Nanga Gaat, Sarawak.
A general view of three Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopters on the ground at the forward operating base of a detachment of 845 Naval Air Commando Squadron at Nanga Gaat in the jungle of Sarawak, which operated from 19 August 1963 to 23 June 1965 during the Indonesian and Malaysian Confrontation. The three aircraft are XS 128 coded F/B, XS 116 coded N/B and XS 127 coded B/B.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT19536 |
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| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Events: | Indonesian and Malaysian confrontation, 1963-1966 |
| Date made: | October 1964 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 38 mm |