The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Shoalwater Bay, Qld. February 1967. An air lift for 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR) troops, now in the middle of exercise Nilla Qua in the Army's Shoalwater Bay training area, north of Rockhampton, Qld. A chalk of seven men is pictured boarding one of the RAAF Iroquois helicopters which lifted a company of 7RAR to a new location in preparation for an attack on a `Queensland Cong' village. 7RAR will serve in South Vietnam shortly.
Battle training for the 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), mortar platoon. The battalion moved into the Army's Shoalwater Bay Training Area, north of Rockhampton, Qld, in preparation
Shoalwater Bay, Qld. February 1967. Making a weapons check on an armoured personnel carrier (APC) is Trooper Bernie Carey, 20, of Woodridge, Qld, a member of 2 Cavalry Regiment, who is taking part in
Rockhampton, Qld. March 1967. Queensland based troops from the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), board Caribou aircraft at Rockhampton during a mass airlift of troops, vehicles, gun
Shoalwater Bay, Qld. 8 February 1968. Army Sioux and Royal Australian Air Force Iroquois helicopters were used extensively on resupply missions for the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1R
Shoalwater Bay, Qld. April 1966. Men of 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), race for cover after landing in a helipad in the Polygon Mountains, during exercises in the Shoalwater Bay
Shoalwater Bay, Qld. September 1968. Not a scene from Vietnam, but a village being kept under close guard during cordon and search operations by the 9th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (9RAR)
