Military bases, American - Vietnam

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: PA12-11338

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. Features Cobra helicopter on airfield with front and side views of the helicopter and images of pilot and co-pilot climbing into the cockpit. Also images of Beechcraft King Air aircraft at Landing Zone English United States Army base, a jeep of shirtless soldiers entering the base through the gate, a "dustoff" medical evacuation helicopter landing. Also includes photographs taken from Beechcraft plane flying over Bong Son area including views of bridge over Lai Gang River and the approach to English base runway. Arrangement: Contains part II of II of slides from box labelled "G" Quantity: 12 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: PA12-11333

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 images of military helicopters including a gunship [armed helicopter] being prepared with the loading of rockets, refuelling, and a case of M79 ammunition other weapons placed in the helicopter and a "slick" [UH-1 helicopter used for transporting troops] photographed flying against a hillside from an airborne gunship. Also United States Army Rangers from the Casper Aviation Platoon, one of whom is leading a dog, crossing an airfield with helicopters in the background [Landing Zone English?]. Soldiers identified as "Brad" and "Ochu" appear with the gunship. Photographs also include a number of images from "Ward three" at the hospital at which Willis worked [Bong Son?] with Willis in one picture, a "Hot toc" at work with sewer in the background, two Vietnamese locals carrying items with baskets on carrying poles "[Chogi?] sticks", a metal pig basket on the side of the road, the view from Willis's room, a sampan boat on a river seen through a [jeep?] window (with man and gun silhouetted in foreground), a local funeral procession, a man [Willis?] smoking a pipe, and International House "restaurant" at Quoc Te with Colonel [Aringa?] walking in the foreground. Arrangement: Contains part I of II of slides from a box labelled "E" 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: PA12-11335

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. Includes aerial views of "VC [Viet Cong]" hills and countryside, rivers, towns, and coast from "slick" UH-1 transport helicopter during mission as well as rockets being loaded into gunship, rockets being fired into a hillside, portraits of two rangers (one in face paint, both wearing bandannas) preparing to be dropped [into VC territory?] from "slick" [UH-1 transport helicopter] and the drop itself, other helicopters flying nearby, and the helicopter pilot "[Marco?]" and co-pilot. Also includes images at air base of helicopter being refuelled and Landing Zone English airfield. Arrangement: Contains part I of II of slides from a box labelled "F" 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: PA12-11339

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: PA12-11329

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. Set features flooding in Bong Son, including the main street of the town, Willis's quarters, the hospital, and surrounding countryside. Also shows a Red Cross jeep in the water, military positions [sandbags, guards, barbed wire], and unidentified military personnel and Vietnamese people amidst the flooding. One image possibly shows Willis. Set also include one photograph of a helicopter "Lucky" landing or taking off from an air base [Landing Zone English?]. Arrangement: Contains part I of II of slides from a box labelled "C" Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies