An aerial view of the helicopter landing area at the forward operating base of a detachment of 845 Naval Air Squadron at Nanga Gaat, Sarawak.
An aerial view of 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 helicopters XS 127 coded B/B, XS 116 coded N/B and XS 152 coded S/B are on the ground.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT19554 |
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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 |