The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Province. The team's bulldozers were clearing 200 yard trails through sixteen miles of thickly jungled foothills of the Nui Dinh, Nui Thi and Nui Thi Vai hills, a few miles west of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) Base at Nui Dat. Members of the 1st Field Squadron and the 17th Construction Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), were involved in the operation.
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
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 bulld
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
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
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 1968-04. Troops of C Company of 2RAR /NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and a component from the 1st Battalion,
