The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 training area, north of Rockhampton. Imaginative training in counter-insurgency operations, highlighting final training is fitting the Battalion for its Vietnamese service soon. Here, a `chalk' of six men of the Battalion, lifted in by a RAAF Iroquois helicopter to Helipad Black One, reinforced a company surrounding an enemy pocket.
Shoalwater Bay, Qld. April 1966. Lance Corporal Rod Hogan, 23, of Stafford, Qld (left), and Private Graham Kelly, 19, of Toowoomba, Qld, inspect an enemy booby trap that they uncovered during a search
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. 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, nort
Shoalwater Bay, Qld. April 1966. A Viet Cong Village seen from above was constructed by Army Engineers and a simulated `enemy' force supplied by 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), is
Alert Trooper (Tpr) David Allen, 21, of Toogoolawah, Qld, guards an armoured personnel carrier (APC) during massive exercises in Shoalwater Bay north of Rockhampton, Qld. The 6th Battalion, The Royal
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
