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1962: Quiet street scene in Saigon, seen by a HMAS QUICKMATCH sailor - Graeme Andrews.
5129. Occasionally we have overlooked the historical value of sailor's snapshots in cities they visited, belatedly realizing their interest both to men of the ships and as time capsules for the people connected to those places.
We'll try to correct that. This is a good example in a city soon to be ruined by war. The Daring Class destroyer .HMAS VAMPIRE [II] and frigate HMAS QUICKMATCH visited Saigon in early 1962 during their South East Asia deployment prior to Exercise JET in the Bay of Bengal.
Graeme Andrews,. a generous contributor to this Photostream, was on HMAS QUICKMATCH at that time, and took this gentle street scene in Saigon.
We had some of Graeme'S pics of VAMPIRE and QUICKMATCH berthed in the Saigon River at and around pic NO. 3927, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/5444292166/in/photostr...
1962: Quiet street scene in Saigon, seen by a HMAS QUICKMATCH sailor - Graeme Andrews.
5129. Occasionally we have overlooked the historical value of sailor's snapshots in cities they visited, belatedly realizing their interest both to men of the ships and as time capsules for the people connected to those places.
We'll try to correct that. This is a good example in a city soon to be ruined by war. The Daring Class destroyer .HMAS VAMPIRE [II] and frigate HMAS QUICKMATCH visited Saigon in early 1962 during their South East Asia deployment prior to Exercise JET in the Bay of Bengal.
Graeme Andrews,. a generous contributor to this Photostream, was on HMAS QUICKMATCH at that time, and took this gentle street scene in Saigon.
We had some of Graeme'S pics of VAMPIRE and QUICKMATCH berthed in the Saigon River at and around pic NO. 3927, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/5444292166/in/photostr...