ARRIVAL OF CASUALTIES
Wounded, Sick Australians
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, Feb. 28. Fifty-one wounded and sick soldiers arrived back in Australia today from Vietnam in one of the largest Australian aircraft medical evacuations since the Second World War. A tight security screen surrounded the Richmond Air Force base, near Sydney, when the Hercules aircraft carrying the men touched down.
The aircraft was taxied to a special dispersal area 400 yards from the main air terminal.
A fleet of 21 ambulances took the wounded men to hospital.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31307, 1 March 1967, Page 17
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