The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Fire Support Base (FSB) Alanbrooke, South Vietnam. 1967-08. An Australian Field Artillery Battery firing a salvo from its 105mm M2A1 guns at dusk during Operation Ainslie. Note the Landrover and trailer in foreground and the puffs of smoke from the salvo. Operation Ainslie was carried out by the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) September 1967 to relocate 1000 villagers from the "Slope 30" area north-east of Nui Dat to a protected village near Xa Bang. The villagers had previously been forced to hand over much of their crops to the Viet Cong (VC).
Binh Ba, South Vietnam. c.1967-08. A Flying Crane helicopter (either a Sikorsky CH-54 or S-64 Tarhe) flying over jungle after delivering ammunition to Fire Support Base (FSB) Alanbrooke during Operati
Fire Support Base (FSB) Alanbrooke , South Vietnam. c.1967-09. Bare-chested gunners of an Australian Field Artillery battery settling in to the newly constructed FSB during Operation Ainslie. Note the
Fire Support Base (FSB) Alanbrooke , South Vietnam. c.1967-09. Bare-chested gunners of an Australian Field Artillery battery setting up canvas tents (hoochies) and erecting barbed wire obstacles in a
Xa Bang, South Vietnam. September 1967. A soldier from 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR) helps Vietnamese villagers to remove personal effects and pumpkins before they evacuated thei
Xa Bang, Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam. 1967-08. Members of Assault Pioneer Platoon, Support Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), take a break during Operation Ainslie. With the
Ap Suoi Nghe, South Vietnam. 1967-10. Aerial view of the newly constructed relocation village, near Xa Bang, north of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base at Nui Dat, before occupation. 1ATF buil
