The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
South Vietnam. 1968-10. A resupply helicopter flies in to deliver spare parts for a bulldozer, to the site of land clearing operations by the land clearing team in Phuoc Tuy Province. The team's bulldozers were carving 200 yard wide trails through sixteen miles of thickly jungled foothills of the Nui Dinh, Nui Thi and Nui Vai hills, a few miles west of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) Base at Nui Dat. Code named Lyrebird, the operation was designed to restrict the movement of the Viet Cong in their own area. Members of the 1st Field Squadron and the 17th Construction Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), were involved in the operation.
South Vietnam. 1968-10. Sapper Ken Lowdon of Puckapunyal, Vic, climbs onto his bulldozer to begin a shift during the land clearing team's Operation Lyrebird, a land clearing operation in Phuoc Tuy Pro
Sapper Stephen Wise of Brighton, SA (left), and Sapper Reg Collins of Wiley Park, NSW, weld the damaged track of a 35 ton bulldozer. During Operation Lyrebird, the team's bulldozers were clearing 200
Sapper Peter De Merla of Moe, Vic, cleaning a 35 ton bulldozer's radiator with an air pressure hose. During Operation Lyrebird, the team's bulldozers were clearing 200 yard trails through sixteen mile
Since August 1, Operation Lyrebird has been underway in thick scrub and rain forest at the base of the Nui Thi, Nui Dinh and Nui Thi Vai hills in the west of Phuoc Tuy Province. In the operation the A
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 1968-04. South Vietnam. 1968-04. An armoured personnel carrier (APC) of A Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, swings into support base Gloria located at the foothills of
South Vietnam. 1968-04. Corporal Merv Wilson of Seymour, Vic, directing bulldozers at the start of a day's clearing operations. The bulldozers, operated by Australian and US Army engineers, were engag
