The helicopter landing area at the forward operating base of 845 Naval Air Commando Squadron at Nanga Gaat, Sarawak.

The helicopter landing area 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 Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopter XS 152 coded S/B is on the ground and a large number of oil drums are near it. Various wooden, interwoven and corrugated iron buildings and the Baleh River are in the background. The photographer is looking obliquely down on the scene from the open door of another helicopter.

Object Details

ID: PCT19548
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