The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Hoa Long, South Vietnam. 1968-09. Private Norm Carter of Killarney, NSW, refills an insecticide spraying machine during a programme in the Vietnamese village of Hoa Long, designed to cut down the incidence of malaria. Members of the 1st Field Hygiene Company, 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit, discovered a high malaria rate among the villagers and moved in with insecticides to spray in and around the houses.
Hoa Long, South Vietnam. 1968-09. Corporal Trevor Shinnick of Campbelltown, SA, refills an insecticide spraying machine during a programme in the Vietnamese village of Hoa Long, designed to cut down t
Hoa Long, South Vietnam. 1968-09. Private Ron Morris of Daylesford, Vic, refills an insecticide spraying machine during a programme in the Vietnamese village of Hoa Long, designed to cut down the inci
SOUTH VIETNAM. 1968-09. CORPORAL LES NUNN OF WYONG, NSW, SPRAYS A VIETNAMESE VILLAGE HOUSE IN HOA LONG, PHUOC TUY PROVINCE, USING A PORTABLE SWING-FOG INSECTICIDE MACHINE IN A BID TO CUT DOWN THE INCI
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 1968-09. Captain John Rhodes of Healesville, Vic, sprays a Vietnamese village house in Hoa Long, using a portable swing-fog insecticide machine in a bid to cut down
Hoa Long, South Vietnam. 1968-05. Visits by Australian medical and dental teams became regular events for the villagers of Hoa Long, near the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) Base at Nui Dat. These vi
South Vietnam. 1969. Army medical Corps members of the hygiene squad with the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) use a 'fogging machine' to spray insecticide in the village of Long Dien.
