Two Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopters of a detachment of 845 Naval Air Squadron from Nanga Gaat, in flight over the Sarawak jungle.
Two Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopters, seen from their starboard beam, of a detachment of 845 Naval Air Commando Squadron from Nanga Gaat in flight over the jungle of Sarawak. The nearest aircraft is XS 127 coded B/B with XS 152 coded S/B beyond it. The Nanga Gaat base operated from 19 August 1963 to 23 June 1965 during the Indonesian and Malaysian Confrontation and the aircraft are on detachment from the aircraft carrier Bulwark (1948).
Object Details
ID: | PCT19560 |
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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 |
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