Day 3: Museums and museums

 

The oil tunnels



Our RSL SA delegate, Wayne Langford in Vietnam in 1971 (on the right)


Vietnam display with Wayne at the Aviation Museum


In the B52 Bomber


Watching the story of the London-Darwin Air-race in 1919, with Keith Smith, Ross Smith, Wally Shiers and Jim Bennett



At the Aviation Museum with Dayle Lord from Tourism Top End and the Vickers Vimey crew

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