Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Children

Date: [ca 1970]

From: Willis, Carol Shiley (Dr), 1922-2008: Transparency slides relating to Willis's service as a medical doctor during the Vietnam War

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

Date: [ca 1970]

From: Willis, Carol Shiley (Dr), 1922-2008: Transparency slides relating to Willis's service as a medical doctor during the Vietnam War

Reference: PA12-11342

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. Photographs of Bong Son including a haircut ("Hot toc") with "Tom Mc" working on Dave T Glanville and [Peter Harris?], NZSMT hospital buildings and grounds, three portraits of Vietnamese people suffering from "Betel nut" teeth, sentry fort at south end of Lai Gang River, and main street scene with "Buddhist thing" [shrine?]. Aerial photographs feature a helicopter in flight over clouds taken from another aircraft, from an aircraft flying into land at Landing Zone English United States Army base with rice paddies below, and sentry tower at English base. Images of Hoai An and surrounding area include a river water wheel at roadside, soldiers at outdoor arms store [guns, shells?], headquarters building, Red Cross vehicle, children on the main street, and images on the road between Hoai An and Bong Son (a farmer and water buffalos in rice paddies, a man carrying a sack on his head, and a gas station). Set also contains images of children standing in the road [Bong Son?]. Arrangement: Contains slides from box lablled "J" Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: [ca 1970]

From: Willis, Carol Shiley (Dr), 1922-2008: Transparency slides relating to Willis's service as a medical doctor during the Vietnam War

Reference: PA12-11330

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. Slides include aerial photographs of the town of Bong Son and surrounding countryside (including rice paddies) taken from a helicopter as well as photographs of floodwaters almost reaching the top of the bridge over the Lai Gang River, and a building [sentry post?] with sandbags. Also includes images of injured Vietnamese, including young children and women, in the hospital ward. Arrangement: Contains part II of II of slides from a box labelled "C" Quantity: 11 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: [ca 1970]

From: Willis, Carol Shiley (Dr), 1922-2008: Transparency slides relating to Willis's service as a medical doctor during the Vietnam War

Reference: PA12-11339

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. Contains photographs, mainly from Bong Son area. Includes puppy "Navy" chewing a sandbag, children on the street, dwellings, jeeps, an unidentified American soldier "Yank" drinking a beer, bedroom [Willis's quarters?], locals selling fish, a tree being removed by a crane at the hospital gate, view of a flare from a gunship [armed helicopter], barracks at Landing Zone English Airfield, MACV (Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) at Tam Quan, a water buffalo and farmer ploughing a rice paddy, a "Buddhist thing" at the roadside, English base with "Geronimo" sign and flags, Bristol Freighter on tarmac at [Qui Nhon? Saigon?], ground seen from Bristol Freighter, and an image of "Tom" on top of a water tower. Arrangement: Contains part I of II of slides from box labelled "H" Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: [ca 1970]

From: Willis, Carol Shiley (Dr), 1922-2008: Transparency slides relating to Willis's service as a medical doctor during the Vietnam War

Reference: PA12-11343

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. Shows lorry arriving with gravel for hospital at Bong Son, view from Willis's room [and interior of room?], Evan [R McKenzie?] and A R Bean sunbathing, and children playing outside hospital building. Landing Zone English United States Army base images show cobra and "Slick" UH-1 transport helicopters (including at dawn, landing, taking off), a number of images of 105mm gun (some with unidentified US soldiers in shot), and a tank. Arrangement: Contains part I of II of slides from box labelled "K" Quantity: 18 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: [ca 1970]

From: Willis, Carol Shiley (Dr), 1922-2008: Transparency slides relating to Willis's service as a medical doctor during the Vietnam War

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

Date: [ca 1970]

From: Willis, Carol Shiley (Dr), 1922-2008: Transparency slides relating to Willis's service as a medical doctor during the Vietnam War

Reference: PA12-11345

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, surgery, and some nudity. Set contains photograph of woman with emaciated baby "famine child and mother", street scene with children playing a ball game in front of a watch tower [Landing Zone English United States Army base?], water buffalo and farmer [ploughing rice paddy?], view from inside bunker with (including gun), view from inside airborne helicopter (with gun in foreground and a landed helicopter below), detail of leg wound and tub of surgical swabs, a portrait of an elderly emaciated Vietnamese woman, Red Cross helicopter "dustoff" with jungle in the background, surgery of victim with leg wounds [fragmentation grenade?], and doctor assessing abdomen of female patient of a stretcher with Vietnamese nurse observing. Arrangement: Contains slides from box labelled "L" Quantity: 10 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies