Vietnam transparencies three

Date
[ca 1970]
Reference
PA12-11328
Description

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. WARNING: contains graphic images of wounds and surgery.

Contains photographs of woman and boy with "frag" [fragmentation grenade] wounds. Images show during and after surgery on the boy and include his wounds, insertion of a drip into leg wound, surgeons working on his lower jaw and cheek wounds, and debriding of wounds. Surgeons include Colonel J S Rea, Evan R McKenzie, and "Barry." Set also includes image of hospital ward, stretcher being removed from Red Cross helicopter "dustoff", Red cross base at Qui Nhon, military base at Qui Nhon (including chapel gardens, miniature golf course by beach), soldiers and children outside the New Zealand Services Medical Team hospital [candy scramble?] including one image with man "Yank", view from Willis's room at Bong Son, and a hilltop temple seen from across a [scrap yard?].

Arrangement: Contains slides removed from box labelled "B"

Quantity: 22 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
22 colour original transparency/ies, Photographs, Transparencies, Colour transparencies
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