The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vung Tau, Vietnam, 1967-01. Elevated view of the corrugated iron roofs and cramped back yards of the houses that lined the squalid back alley behind the RAAF Sergeants' quarters at the Ngoc Huong Hotel in Vung Tau. In the foreground, washing is hanging out on a series of clothes lines, while a coil of barbed wire stretches above them. A brothel employing ten prostitutes operated in one of the hovels lining the alley. (From report on 'Living and Domestic Areas' by Flight Lieutenant Ian Favilla, 1967-01-27, Department of Air file 652/13/39 part 1)
Vung Tau, Vietnam, 1967-01. The squalid back alley behind the RAAF Sergeants' quarters at the Ngoc Huong Hotel in Vung Tau. A motor scooter stands on the rubbish-strewn alley at centre, while a group
Vung Tau, Vietnam, 1967-01. Discarded tins and other garbage lie in a heap at the entrance to the squalid back alley behind the RAAF Sergeants' quarters at the Ngoc Huong Hotel in Vung Tau. (From repo
Vung Tau, Vietnam, 1967-01. Open drain in a street at Front Beach outside the Ngoc Huong Hotel, the quarters for RAAF NCOs and airmen in Vung Tau. Local people used the drain as a toilet and for garba
Vung Tau, Vietnam, 1967-01. Open drain in a street at Front Beach outside the Ngoc Huong Hotel, the quarters for RAAF NCOs and airmen in Vung Tau. Local people used the drain as a toilet and for garba
Vung Tau, Vietnam, 1967-01. A shower cubicle in the Ngoc Huong Hotel, the quarters for RAAF NCOs and airmen in Vung Tau, showing the shabby bare walls and old plumbing. Many of the pipes were corroded
Vung Tau, Vietnam, 1967-01. The sea wall at Front Beach in front of the Villa Anna and the Ngoc Huong Hotel, the quarters occupied by RAAF servicemen living in Vung Tau. Front Beach was a dumping grou
