The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A representative group of soldiers from the 1st Australian Task Force attended a farewell parade in Baria, the province capital of Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, this week signifying the end of six years of military and civil action in the Province. The Diggers, drawn from units throughout the Task Force, took part in a march past after the Phuoc Tuy Province chief had personally thanked the Task Force for providing the Province with the security it currently enjoys. The Task Force Commander, 3392 Brigadier Bruce Alexander McDonald, was presented with a Vietnamese ceremonial costume and a plaque commemorating the presence of Australians in the area. The parade was watched by a large Vietnamese crowd including hundreds of school children, many of whom go to school in Australian built classrooms throughout the Province. Diggers representing each unit were presented with a garland of flowers by Vietnamese girls and then the Task Force parade marched past under the Australian and Vietnamese flags for the last time. The ceremony marked the last time Australian troops will appear formally in Phuoc Tuy Province, the last combat troops having been withdrawn from the old Task Force headquarters at Nui Dat two weeks ago.
Twenty nine Australian soldiers have become the first graduates of an experimental school set up to train fluent interpreters. At the same school South Vietnamese soldiers studied the English languag
In a combined Australian and Vietnamese project, the civil affairs unit with the Australian Task Force in Vietnam, has been given the task of building 139 houses in the Long Dien district. The houses
Twenty nine Australian soldiers in Vietnam have become the first graduates of an experimental school set up to train fluent interpreters. At the same school, Vietnamese soldiers studied English. Comma
One of the many Civil Aid projects carried out by the Australian Army in Phuoc Tuy Province South Vietnam has been to help in the re-building and re-equipping of the school at An Ngai destroyed during
Anzac and Vietnamese soldiers and civilians recently competed in a 5000-metre road race from Long Dien to the capital of Phuoc Tuy Province, Baria, in South Vietnam. The race was part of the celebrati
In South Vietnam, the Australian Army Training Team is instructing Cambodian and Vietnamese troops. A small group of Training Team advisors comprised Australia's first military commitment to Vietnam 1
