The Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopter XS 127 delivering stores at Kapit Bridge on the Baleh River, near Nanga Gaat, Sarawak.
The Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopter XS 127 coded B/B on the ground delivering stores at Kapit Bridge by the Baleh River near 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. A number of the local populace are surrounding the helicopter.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT19549 |
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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 |