The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A troop of four M113A1 Fire Support Vehicles (FSV) (right) lined up next to the runway at Luscombe field, Nui Dat. The first FSV named 'DENISE' and has the call sign four two Alpha (42A). Further to the left, a line of M113A1 Armoured Personnel Carriers (APC) are visible. All these vehicles belong to A Squadron (denoted by the blue triangle), 3rd Cavalry Regiment, Royal Australian Armoured Corps. These vehicles have had additional belly and sponson armour added (visible on the lower hull nose and above the first three road wheels respectively). The trees (background) were the recently vacated lines of the 161st Reconnaissance Flight. The pile of sandbags in the foreground (left) is a command bunker. Note the sheets of perforated steel planking (PSP) also known as Marston steel matting, laid down on the ground. At this stage of the Vietnam War, the perimeter and personnel at 1 Australian Task Force (1ATF) Nui Dat had been reduced, with total withdrawal to Vung Tau scheduled for November 1971.
A troop of four M113A1, Fire Support Vehicles (FSVs), (foreground) lined up adjacent to the sealed runway at Luscombe field, Nui Dat. The first vehicle 'DENISE' has the call sign four two Alpha (42A).
Several unidentified Australian service personnel standing on the tarmac made of Marston steel matting, a perforated steel planking (known as PSP), while a stretchered Australian soldier is loaded abo
Several unidentified Australian service personnel standing on the tarmac made of Marston matting, a perforated steel planking (known as PSP), while a stretchered Australian soldier is loaded aboard a
Four unidentified Australian servicemen carry a stretcher with a patient strapped on it, across the tarmac made of Marston matting, a perforated steel planking (known as PSP), to a waiting RAAF Hercul
An unidentified Australian serviceman on a stretcher is unloaded from an ambulance ready to be loaded onto an aircraft, probably a No 35 Squadron, RAAF, Caribou, for relocation to either Saigon or But
A group of vehicles which have been withdrawn from the 1st Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat back to Vung Tau, in preparation for their return to Australia. Some of the vehicles identified are M11
