Wikipedia

File:Vance Drummond 1966 (AWM VN66003702).JPG

Vance_Drummond_1966_(AWM_VN66003702).JPG (640 × 429 pixels, file size: 202 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description Vietnam: Vung Tau Special Zone, Vung Tau. 33624 Wing Commander (Wing Cdr) Vance Drummond, of Hamilton, New Zealand, and more recently of Hackett, ACT, was snapped by the RAAF News Camera, sliding into the cockpit of his Cessna 01 'Bird Dog' nick named 'Snoopy' at Vung Tau airfield, South Vietnam. For the past eight months, Wing Cdr Drummond has been on exchange duty with the United States Air Force (USAF) in Vietnam. Wing Cdr Drummond's first months in Vietnam were at Tan Son Nhut Airfield, Saigon, with the Tactical Air Control Centre. Now Wing Cdr Drummond flies 'Snoopy', snooping along in the air just high enough to clear the tall Vietnamese trees growing out of the jungle, looking for Viet Cong (VC). He is the only RAAF officer in Vietnam flying a Forward Air Control (FAC) for the USAF. He only sees other RAAF members when he calls into the base at Vung Tau on a monthly basis to collect his mail and pay. His job as FAC is to search for columns of VC moving through the jungle and when spotted he calls up the strike aircraft and directs them to the target. When the strike aircraft is finished, Wing Cdr Drummond flies in and fires the four, two inch rockets carried on his wing pods. Wing Cdr Drummond has also been an interpreter in Japan; a fighter pilot in Korea, where he was shot down and held prisoner for 14 months; the leader of one of the RAAF's best known aerobatic teams 'The Black Diamonds' flying sabres a subsonic aircraft. In comparison his Cessna 01 'Bird Dog' buzzes along at only 90 miles an hour. Note the Snoopy nose art painted on the aircraft.
Date
Source
This image is available from the Collection Database of the Australian War Memorial under the ID Number:
C1121281
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.

العربيَّة | български | English | español | français | हिन्दी | македонски | português | +/−

Author Westbury, Gerald Wallace
Permission
(Reusing this file)
Public domain
This image is protected by Crown Copyright because it is owned by the Australian Government or that of the states or territories, and is in the public domain because it was created or published prior to 1974 and the copyright has therefore expired. The government of Australia has declared that the expiration of Crown Copyrights applies worldwide. This has been confirmed by correspondence received by the Volunteer Response Team (Ticket:2017062010010417).

العربية ∙ dansk ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ македонски ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ 中文 ∙ +/−

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

Vance Drummond

inception

August 1966

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current10:06, 7 July 2018Thumbnail for version as of 10:06, 7 July 2018640 × 429 (202 KB)Ian Rose{{Information |Description=Vietnam: Vung Tau Special Zone, Vung Tau. 33624 Wing Commander (Wing Cdr) Vance Drummond, of Hamilton, New Zealand, and more recently of Hackett, ACT, was snapped by the RAAF News Camera, sliding into the cockpit of his Cessna 01 'Bird Dog' nick named 'Snoopy' at Vung Tau airfield, South Vietnam. For the past eight months, Wing Cdr Drummond has been on exchange duty with the United States Air Force (USAF) in Vietnam. Wing Cdr Drummond's first months in Vietnam were ...

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vance_Drummond_1966_(AWM_VN66003702).JPG"