The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Soldiers at the 1st Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat in South Vietnam, are inveterate collectors of pets. Dogs, monkeys, a turkey, snakes and a pig, all are well looked after by the troops in their off duty hours. One of the more unusual pets is a Vietnamese honey bear now being cared for by men of the Task Force's Headquarters Company. The bear, named Rachael, is one of the most pandered pets in the Task Force and is getting some of her daily ration of milk from Corporal Bob Charles of Newmarket, Qld, and an orange from Captain Horst Kuessner of Mount Hawthorn, WA. Rachael's mother was accidentally shot by infantry when she stumbled into their night location and set off trip flares. In the morning the soldiers found the hungry cub and flew it back to Nui Dat. When she is full grown to five feet tall she will present a problem but it is hoped to find her a comfortable home in the Saigon zoo. Rachael will certainly be too used to a life of luxury to return to her natural habitat in the jungles of Phuoc Tuy Province. Also identified: Corporal (Cpl) Murry Stewart of Ipswich, Qld; Trooper Ron Clark of Sunshine, Vic; Cpl Ian Rogers of Daylesford, Vic.
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. April 1970. Vietnamese honey bear cub, Raechel, clowns around with Corporal Ian Rogers of Daylesford, Vic, a member of Headquarter Company. at the 1st Australian Task Force (1A
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. April 1970. Vietnamese honey bear cub, Raechel (wearing a digger's hat), apes it up with Corporal Bob Charles of Newmarket, Qld, at the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base. T
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
Bulldozers and tractors are the weapons aimed at the Viet Cong in a new operation launched west of Nui Dat, Phuoc Tuy province, this week. It is a large-scale land clearing operation code-named Lyre B
The Commanding General of the United States' Continental Army Command, General Paul L. Freeman Junior, will arrive in Australia on Tuesday, February 28. During his visit, which will end on March 5, he
Two grain threshing machines donated by the Minlation and Maitland Branches of the Rural Youth Club of South Australia arrived in Vietnam this week for use by the Australian Army's Civil Affairs Unit