The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. August 1970. Fifty-ton Centurion tanks need constant maintenance to keep them battle-ready. Craftsman Garry Hutchinson of Hawthorne, Qld, repairs a junction box on one of the armoured monsters on its return from operations in Phuoc Tuy Province. He is serving with 106th Field Workshop, at the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base.
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. August 1970. Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers perform delicate instrument repairs to vital Army equipment. Lance Corporal Laird Best of Broadmeadows, Vic, a
South Vietnam. November 1970. Craftsman Terry O'Neill, 23, of Fawkner, Vic, operates a crane on a specially equipped armoured personnel carrier (APC). Craftsman O'Neill, a soldier of the 1st Armoured
'Uptight', a mammoth 52-ton Centurion tank, call sign 4B (Four Bravo) ARN 169104 of A Squadron, 1st Armoured Regiment (1AR), having come in from the jungle to 106th Field Workshop at the Australian Ta
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 1968-02. Captain Bernard Sullivan of Puckapunyal, Vic, supervises the landing of newly arrived Centurion tanks from landing craft on the outskirts of Baria, the capi
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. 1968-11-13. At the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) Base members of the 106th Field Workshops, formerly known as the 1st Armoured Squadron Workshops, attached to C Squadron, 1s
Nui Dat, Vietnam. 1967-10. Vehicles in constant use in Phuoc Tuy Province need regular servicing. Private Lewyn McLean of Seymour, Vic, and 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), underne
