The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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, Luscombe Bowl. Compere Tony Howes kicked the show off to a good start and was backed up by singers Helen McMillan, Gwendolene Allen and Eddie Storm, folk singers Kay Collyer and Jim Malcolm who will be married soon after returning to Australia and the band Peter Jupp, Brian Coupe and Graham Johnson. The party is spending 2 1/2 weeks in Vietnam entertaining allied troops. Sponsored by the Australian Forces Overseas Fund, all the entertainers come from the Perth area and all are making their first visit to South Vietnam.
Seven members of a Government sponsored concert party arrive at an Australian fire support base in southern Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. The Sydney entertainers became one of the first groups to
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 c
The 11th Government-sponsored concert party to visit Vietnam played two concerts at Luscombe Bowl, Nui Dat, during a two-week tour of Australian and United States bases. Headed by comedian Eddie Mendo
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
The seven members of a government sponsored concert party to South Vietnam this week brought more than two hours of Christmas cheer to about 1,500 Australian soldiers at Nui Dat. The concert party, le
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
