The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
South Vietnam, c. 1969. A Bell 47G Sioux helicopter of No. 161 Recce Flight, Australian Army, hovers over what may be a Fire Support Base (FSB) under construction in the Vietnamese countryside. A pile of thick timbers like railway sleepers lies on the ground (right), with some tents behind it and a bamboo observation tower at rear. Sheets of corrugated iron lie in an untidy pile (centre, left). A rubber plantation stands in the background. (Donor anonymous) (Original 35mm transparency housed in AWM Archive Store)
South Vietnam, c. 1969. A land mine lies discarded on the side of a dirt road shortly after its discovered and disarmed (or 'deloused') by Australian soldiers. (Donor anonymous) (Original 35mm transpa
BIEN HOA, SOUTH VIETNAM, C. 1966. AUSTRALIAN ARMY LANCE CORPORAL T.H. BLAIR (SEATED) OF GRACEVILLE, QLD, AND FLIGHT SERGEANT LLOYD LARNEY OF RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHT OF RAAF 161 (STANDING) OF MANLY, QLD,
Probably Phuoc Tuy province, Vietnam, 1971-04. A Bell 47G Sioux helicopter of No. 161 Recce Flight, Australian Army, stands in a jungle clearing after flying in an Intelligence officer to photograph
South Vietnam, c. 1969. Under basic conditions in a Vietnamese hospital, Vietnamese patients lie on thin mattresses on old metal-frame beds which are crammed close together in the hospital ward. A wom
South Vietnam, c. 1969. An observation tower, its base heavily protected by sandbag walls, stands outside a compound occupied by Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) prisoners-of-war (POWs).
Wadi Gazouza, Sudan. c.1941-07. The damaged ruins of a corrugated iron shed whose roof has been torn off by a storm. Sheets of metal and wood lie strewn across the ground at the camp of No. 211 Squadr
