The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The Junior Boy's Academy at Vung Tau, South Vietnam, is a training ground for many of the country's potential leaders and senior administrators. With a capacity for about 1,500 boys aged from 12 to 18 years, the Academy is the only one left of eight that flourished in 1953. It is badly in need of reconstruction and rehabilitation, and to assist this project, and to aid other civic action work in South Vietnam, the Defend Australia Committee is making a public appeal to raise $30,000 in cash. Also required is a wide variety of household goods needed by the people of Phuoc Tuy Province, where the Australian Army Task Force is located. Cash and goods raised will be handed to the Army. Cash will be used for reconstruction work and goods will be distributed to villagers in the province. Remodelling work has already started at the Academy, which is staffed by civilian teachers and military instructors, under a South Vietnamese Army officer. The Academy provides two hours military instruction a week until the final year, when the boys complete 15 weeks of intensive military study. Australian troops show keen interest in the Academy and have assisted in reconstruction and repair work in their own time. At the Academy, boys can reach an educational standard corresponding to the Australian Matriculation standard in some subjects. In Canberra, the Chairman of the Defend Australia Committee, Mr Peter Frankel, visited the office of the Army Minister, the Honourable Malcolm Fraser and presented a progress cheque.
The Australian public has co-operated with the Australian forces in Vietnam in assisting and improving the living standards of the South Vietnamese people. At a ceremony in Vung Tau this week, three v
At a ceremony in Vung Tau, three visiting members of the Defend Australia Committee presented portable radios to the junior boys military academy. The Commander of the 1st Australian Logistic Support
At Vung Tau, centre of 1st Australian Logistic Support Group, tons of Australian aid goods are stored while distribution continues. Aid goods are unpacked and unloaded into a land rover; this consign
In Canberra, the Minister for the Army, Mr Phillip Lynch, yesterday received a cheque for $800 from Mr Peter Frankel, Chairman of the Defend Australia Committee. The cheque brought the total amount ra
Australian Army engineers in Vietnam are progressing rapidly on the reconstruction of seven miles of one of the major roads in Phuoc Tuy Province, the force's special area of responsibility. The work
In Vietnam, Australian soldiers continue the fight against the Viet Cong by combatting ignorance, poverty and disease. They are hepled immensely by donations from Australia of clothing, food and schoo
