The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Nui Dat, Vietnam. 1967-05. Officers of the 1st Australian Task Force Headquarters at work with picks and shovels to fill sandbags as part of the defences around their mess. For an hour at the end of each working day the staff officers stipped down to the waist and got on with the job of strengthening their defences.
Nui Dat, Vietnam. 1967-05. Officers of the 1st Australian Task Force Headquarters at work with picks and shovels to fill sandbags as part of the defences around their mess. For an hour at the end of e
Nui Dat, Vietnam. 1967-05. Officers were kept busy clearing trenches and sand-bagging weapon pits around the Headquarters Officers' Mess. Legal Officer, Major John Barlow of Townsville, Qld, holds the
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. 1967-12. Task Force fortifications require the use of thousands of sand bags. A daily work force of Vietnamese villagers turn up at the sandpit, a few miles from Nui Dat, to fi
Nui Dat, Vietnam. 1967-05. Officers were kept busy clearing trenches and sand-bagging weapon pits around the Headquarters Officers' Mess. Captain Ian Wells of Cottesloe, WA, using a shovel to fill a s
Nui Dat, Vietnam. 1967-05. Officers were kept busy clearing trenches and sand-bagging weapon pits around the Headquarters Officers' Mess. Lieutenant Jim Levens of Wahgunyah, Vic, hard at work with his
Nui Dat, Vietnam. 1967-05. Officers were kept busy clearing trenches and sand-bagging weapon pits around the Headquarters Officers' Mess. Lieutenant Tim Bales of Newcastle, NSW, hard at work digging w
