The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A typical 'tent city' erected at the first Australian Logistics Support Group (1ALSG) base. Sand-bagged walls provide some protection from potential rocket and mortar attacks. These tent lines probably housed soldiers from 5 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR) initially serving at the base. The structures were dispersed over a wide area to minimise the effects that a direct hit on a central accommodation block would have caused. Concentrating occupants in one major barracks block would have exposed them to a greater risk.
A patrol of soldiers, probably drawn from 5 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), form a security patrol near 'Back Beach' at the base of the 1st Australian Logistics Support Group (1ALSG).
This aerial photograph marks the progress in the development of the 1st Australian Logistics Support Group (1ALSG) base at Vung Tau eighteen months after initial construction commenced in April 1966.
An Australian soldier, his national flag visible in the distance behind him, walks past a sand-bagged tent structure at the 1st Australian Logistics Support Group (1ALSG). With aerials protruding fro
This aerial photograph, looking towards north north-west, marks the early development of the 1st Australian Logistics Support Group (1ALSG) base at Vung Tau where construction commenced in early 1966.
The 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) Headquarters lines set up in a shaded rubber plantation at Nui Dat. These accommodation tents have been reinforced with low walls of sand bags a
A sand bagged weapon pit at the rear of 29363 Corporal Bernard William (Bernie) Binge's tent, at the 581 Signal Troops lines at the 1st Australian Logistic Support Group (1ALSG) base. There is an ammu
