The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vung Tau, Vietnam, c. 1966. Two towers support tanks that provide the non-potable water supply for the Ngoc Huong Hotel, the quarters occupied by RAAF NCOs and airmen in Vung Tau. The tanks supplied water to showers, toilet cisterns and hand-bowls but, owing to heavy usage and constant leakage from old corroded plumbing pipes, water had to pumped into the tanks several times a day to refill them. The courtyard immediately behind the towers served as the Airmens Club, some tables and chairs for which are partly visible at left. (Original print housed in AWM Archive Store) (Donor anonymous)
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. 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 length of corrugated steel pipe that is being used to close an open drain in a street at Front Beach outside the Ngoc Huong Hotel, the quarters for RAAF NCOs and airmen i
A speed boat used for water skiing in the waters around Vung Tau by members of the RAAF Transport Flight Vietnam (RTFV). The boat is housed at Villa Ngoc (Hotel Ngoc Huong) and is being washed down a
FORT CAPUZZO, LIBYA. WATER IS PUMPED FROM UNDERGROUND TANKS AND CISTERNS INTO WATER-CARRYING TRUCKS THEN CONVEYED TO TROOPS IN FORWARD POSITIONS. WELLS WERE SALTED BY RETREATING ITALIANS (AND/OR BRITI
