The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A view of three individual rest and sleeping shelters at Fire Support Base (FSB) Maree/Marie, during Operation Ivanhoe (19 September - 2 October 1971). To construct these shelters, a pit is dug and then covered over with sections of corrugated steel culvert, which in turn is covered with an external layer of sandbags and a nylon hutchie to keep moisture out. In this fashion, the occupant is able to shelter below ground level and the curved roof provides some degree of protection from blast and shell fragments in the case of a mortar attack against the FSB. Individual items, such as webbing, water bottles, food dixies and steel helmets are visible near the entrance to the shelters.
Unidentified Australian soldiers establishing their sleeping shelters at Fire Support Base (FSB) Maree/Marie during Operation Ivanhoe (19 September - 2 October 1971). A Kiowa helicopter is visible (ba
The interior of the Artillery Command Post (CP) at Fire Support Base (FSB) Maree/Marie, which is being established for operation Ivanhoe (19 September - 2 October 1971).
An 81 mm mortar set up and waiting to be emplaced in a mortar pit at Fire Support Base (FSB) Maree/Marie, which is being established for operation Ivanhoe (19 September - 2 October 1971). In the backg
A group of unidentified Australian soldiers filling sandbags from a pile of freshly dug earth at Fire Support Base (FSB) Maree/Marie, which is being established for operation Ivanhoe (19 September - 2
A pair of unidentified Australian soldiers filling sandbags from a pile of freshly dug earth at Fire Support Base (FSB) Maree/Marie, which is being established for operation Ivanhoe (19 September - 2
A group of unidentified Australian soldiers watch on as an operator uses a mechanical backhoe, attached to the back of a small Oliver bulldozer, to dig a shelter pit at Fire Support Base (FSB) Maree/M
