The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Bare-backed Diggers of the Australian Task Force at Nui Dat, Vietnam, joined in with community numbers and clapped with the band during the present concert tour of Vietnam by Australian artists. The concert, which was sponsored by the Australian Government, was the eigth and one of the most popular to be staged for Australian troops in the theatre. Compared by Melbourne television personality Doug Owne, the non-stop 90 minutes of entertainment was greeted with constant applause, shouts of more and the occasional humorous remark. Most popular artists were vocalists and dancers Patti McGrath and Denise Drysdale, both of Melbourne. The concert was the first to be held for Australian troops for about six weeks and was staged in the newly completed concert bowl near the airstrip at the Task Force base and backed by a rubber plantation. The concert party gave four performances for the troops of the Task Force and later visited Australian and RAAF troops throughout Vietnam. The party, which comprised "The Strangers" also visited troops in hospital at Vung Tau and United States forces near the demilitarized zone and in the delta. As with the previous concert parties cameras were to the fore. The party will return to Australia via Singapore on October 12.
A concert party headed by Australian entertainer Lucky Starr entertained troops of the 1st Australian Task Force camp at Nui Dat South Vietnam. The group, spending its second Christmas in Vietnam gav
A concert party from Western Australia visited the Australian Task Force Base at Nui Dat on Tuesday 2 April(?) and got a rousing reception from off duty diggers at the base's open air theatre, Luscomb
More than 1200 Australian Task Force soldiers sat through torrential monsoon rain for an hour today to hear Australia's top television entertainer, Lorrae Desmond, perform for them. The applause was s
A concert party of Adelaide entertainers performed for troops at the Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat in Vietnam this week. The big crowd of about 1500, heavily sprinkled with 5th Battalion soldi
Fresh back from their first operation in South Vietnam soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, this week relaxed at Nui Dat with entertainment by a Sydney concert party. There were n
The members of the Third All Queensland Concert Party won the hearts of two thousand Australian soldiers at Nui Dat this week with their singing, dancing and jokes. The soldiers, dressed in jungle gre
