IMAGE
Vietnam transparencies one
- Date
- [ca 1970]
- Reference
- PA12-11326
- Description
Colour transparency slides relating to Dr Carol Shiley Willis's service as a medical doctor during the Vietnam War. Photographs taken circa 1970, probably by Willis.
Includes photographs of and around the town of Bong Son, including a military convoy, a plane coming into land over rice paddies, local people on roadside (including carrying hay with [Chogi?] stick and a child sitting on a water buffalo), shops and a billiard saloon on the main street, drying rice, and the Lai Gang River with a recently constructed bridge and barbed wire fence along the riverbank. Willis appears in one image (looking at items in a hardware store). Children hanging around Willis's quarters feature in a number of images. Set also includes an image of a malnourished child and the operating theatre at the hospital with bloodied sheets still on the table.
Arrangement: Contains part I of II of slides from box labelled "A"
Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.
Physical Description: Colour transparencies
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Willis, Carol Shiley (Dr), 1922-2008: Transparency slides relating to Willis's service as a medical doctor during the Vietnam War
- Format
- 23 colour original transparency/ies, Photographs, Transparencies, Colour transparencies
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