The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The windmill, all but vanished from the American landscape, is suddenly appearing in small hamlets in South Vietnam. The First Australian Civil Affairs Unit, part of the 1st Australian Task Force based at Nui Dat, is busy installing windmills and laying pipe tp provide local villagers with regular water supply systems. In most villages, hand dug wells are the principal source of water and the villagers have to visit the wells with buckets and jugs in time honoured fashion. The Australian plan is to provide water retriculation systems for twelve separate hamlets in Phuoc Tuy Province. Each system will be similar to this one, in the village of Le Vin. There is a constant, gentle, wind in the area. The windmill pumps water from the ground into a 10,000 gallon tank which connects to a pipe system, with taps at regular intervals around the village. Normally, the windmill will pump about 30,000 gallons of water from the ground each day. The men from "Down Under" are doing an excellent job in gaining the trust and friendship of the Vietnamese people, participating in a number of projects which hepl improve the villagers' standard of living.
Australian soldiers in Vietnam are preparing to hand over their ambitious village water reticulation programme to the people of Phuoc Tuy Province. Men of the 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit are now
Since the people of Ngai Giao arrived in the area some years ago they have had neither a market place nor an adequate water supply system. Today thanks to the work of the 1st Australian Civil Affairs
Three miles south of the Australian Task Force base, troops of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, are building a fence which will be a Viet Cong barrier unique in Vietnam. Stretching fo
Montagnard farmers in South Vietnam's Phuoc Tuy Province will reap a better rice crop this year, thanks to the help of the Australian Army's 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit, based at Nui Dat. This m
In Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, the search by Australian soldiers for Viet Cong is never-ending. In the village of Hoa Long engineers search for an enemy tunnel system known to be in the village
Engineers of the 17th Construction Squadron in Vietnam are building more than five miles of road between the Task Force base at Nui Dat and the province capital of Baria. Much of this road is used by
