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"Fort Petticoat"

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"Fort Petticoat"
Repository
Australian War Memorial Research Centre
Reference
P02017.022
Description

Vung Tau, South Vietnam. 1968. Margaret Young, Australian Red Cross Field Force Officer (in bikini swimsuit at left), and Jan MacArthur, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), nursing sister (right), hanging out the washing outside "Fort Petticoat", the accommodation block for nurses and Red Cross women at 8 Field Ambulance. (Donor M. Boyle)

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