The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
South Vietnam. September 1970. Captain (Capt) George Nichols helps instruct a Vietnamese rural health chief in the techniques of administering local anaesthetic for dental treatment. His pupil is Mr Tiep of Baria, who hopes to be able to learn basic dental skills to swell the small ranks of Vietnamese dentists. Capt Nichols of West End, Brisbane, Qld, is one of five Australian Army dentists in Vietnam.
Captain (Capt) George Nichols from West End, Brisbane, Qld, administers a local anaesthetic to five year old Oanh during a civil affairs visit to Baria Hospital. Capt Nichols is one of five Australian
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. June 1970. The flat rice paddy provides a backdrop of greenery as a South Vietnamese Army soldier learns ambush techniques from an Army instructor at a fire support
South Vietnam. August 1970. Sergeant John van Hattem of Healesville, Vic, helps a three-year-old Vietnamese girl select a new dress from one of nine tea chests of new and freshly drycleaned used cloth
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. May 1970. A sick Vietnamese peasant from the far north of the province is helped from an armoured personnel carrier (APC) to a waiting RAAF helicopter by his wife, a
Bien Hoa, South Vietnam. June 1970. Captain (Capt) Dudley Lever of Macquarie, ACT, talks to a Viet Cong (VC) prisoner of war (POW) on left, through a Vietnamese Army interpreter at the III Corps Tacti
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. November 1970. It was party day at the 1st Australian Task Force Base (1ATF), as the headquarters entertains about eighty children from the Baria Orphanage. Helping to entertai
