The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Trai Me Linh, South Vietnam. November 1971. Vietnamese soldiers of the 5th Engineer Combat Group at Trai Me Linh prepare aluminium supports of a dismantled lysaght pre-fabricated building for reconstruction at their base fifteen miles north of Saigon. The supports, from the 1st Australian Task Force Base (1ATF) at Nui Dat, were allotted to the Engineer Combat Group after Nui Dat was evacuated by the Australians and handed over to the Vietnamese.
Captain Alan Townson of Chermside, Qld, and Lieutenant Colonel Nga (right), chief of the Base Development Office of the 3rd Area Logistic Command in Saigon, check paperwork relating to the aluminium s
Saigon, South Vietnam. November 1971. Vietnamese soldiers stack timber in preparation for the reconstruction of wooden huts at the 90th Air Equipment Repair Base in Saigon. The timber, from the previo
A board at 650th Signal Operation Battalion in Saigon, outlines some of the reconstruction work for which building material from the former 1st Australian Task Force Base (1ATF) at Nui Dat will be use
Vietnamese soldiers of the 650th Area Signal Operation Battalion in Saigon, work on an extension to their soldiers' mess hall. Timber and corrugated iron used in the construction came from the 1st Aus
An extension to this building at the 652 Area Signal Operation Battalion, is to be erected with material from the former 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base at Nui Dat. When completed, the extension
South Vietnam. October 1971. Five years of tenancy by Australian troops at Nui Dat came closer to an end with the move to Vung Tau of the headquarters of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) and sever
