The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The Army's soldier-sailors and its 'iron men' combined recently to show the growing flexibility of the Army in South Vietnam. Aboard the landing-ship Harry Chauvel were men of the Royal Australian Engineers...ashore were troops of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps, and their mechanical engineers. Their job: to embark two Centurion armoured vehicles aboard the landing-ship to be returned to Australia for a major overhaul. The landing-ship was used to avoid disrupting traffic through congested villages and hamlets between Nui Dat and the coastal port and seaside resort of Vung Tau. After a tortuous trip up the winding maze of rivers from Vung Tau, the landing-ship berthed just south of the Phuoc Tuy Province capital of Baria - and embarked the two 50-ton giants within 30 minutes.
Eleven more Centurion tanks have arrived in Vietnam for service with the 1st Australian Task Force at Nui Dat in Phuoc Tuy Province. The tanks, which each weigh fifty tons, were unloaded from a United
Twenty eight Centurion tanks and variants are on their way home following three-and-a-half years service in total by them and their predecessors in South Vietnam. The 52-ton tanks are bound for 1 Cent
A further 350 Australian troops comprising armour, artillery, engineers, signals, light aircraft and logistic elements arrived in Vietnam aboard the RAN troop carrier HMAS 'Sydney' to bring the Austra
A major step in the withdrawal of Australian troops from South Vietnam was completed last weekend with the movement of the Headquarters, 1st Australian Task Force, from its former base at Nui Dat to t
It was canvas accommodation for members of the Australian Task Force's Tactical Headquarters when it moved into the field on Operation Kenmore in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. On the spot, a comp
More than 100 potential Citizen Military Force officers were amongst a big crowd of servicemen who watched Regular Army infantrymen in a demonstration with tanks at Puckapunyal Victoria this week. Th
