Interview with Brian Taylor (Frontline out takes)

Brian Taylor as a cameraman for the British based Independent Television News (ITN) describes his luck during the Vietnam war; calculating risk; his assessment of a helicopter flight from a Special Forces camp; ambush evasion technique; caution during patrol; assessing danger; experiencing 'carrier warfare'; difficulty in filming during bombing runs; US cooperation in filming by providing suitable aircraft such as the A-6 Intruder; hazards of landing on an aircraft carrier; torture and killing of captured reporters early on in the war by the Viet Cong; a Swiss cameraman who had his eyes cut out and another reporter who was disembowelled; equipment and money carried by cameramen an incentive for the Viet Cong to kill them; dangerous assignment at Du Coq (?) a Special Forces camp before it was overrun; assessment of Australian political and public knowledge of the war; Australian troops; reasons for going to Vietnam. [Sound drifts slightly out of sync as the item progresses due to fault with the audio tape recorder pilot tone at the time the orginal recording was made.]