An aerial view of the landing area and some of the buildings at the forward operating base of a detachment of 845 Naval Air Squadron at Nanga Gaat, Sarawak.
An aerial view of the landing area and some of the buildings 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 127 coded B/B is in flight just above the landing area.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT19564 |
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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 |