Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopters on the ground at the forward operating base of a detachment of 845 Naval Air Squadron at Nanga Gaat, Sarawak.

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. In the left foreground is XS 152 coded S/B with XS 127 coded B/B beyond it. On the right is the nose of XS 116 coded N/B.

Object Details

ID: PCT19558
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