The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An M113A1 fitters vehicle (centre with crane boom) from the Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RAEME) light aid detachment, delivering a vital piece of machinery to a Centurion Mk V/I tank (left). The tank, from B Squadron, 1st Armoured Regiment, is part of a protection force for Australian engineers who are clearing the foothills of the Long Hai mountains in southern Phuoc Tuy province. In seven weeks, 1st Field Squadron Engineers cleared about 2,000 acres which will make it harder for the Viet Cong (VC) to reach the nearby populated areas. Note the International F6 6x6 truck (right) being used as an improvised refueling vehicle with a rubber fuel bladder in the back.
Soldiers of the Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RAEME) conducting engine maintenance on an Australian Centurion Tank (right). Note the crane on the M113A1 fitters repair vehicle
The 106 Field Workshops, Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RAEME), part of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF), repair anything from a watch to a tank. Here, a member of 106 Field
South Vietnam. 1969-07. A Centurion tank from B Squadron, 1st Armoured Regiment, is refuelled from rubber fuel bladders near the Long Hai hills about seven miles south of the 1st Australian Task Force
M113A1 Repair Fitters Vehicle of A Squadron, 1st Armoured Regiment Light Aid Detachment (LAD) RAEME and with call sign 8E (not in view), is about to use its crane jib to lift a final drive unit to be
Members of B Squadron, 1st Armoured Regiment Light Aid Detachment changing a Merritt Brown Model 25IR gearbox of a Centurion Mk5/1 (Aust) tank using an M113A1 Fitters Vehicle.
Repair work being carried out in the field by a mobile repair team of the 106th Field Workshops, Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RAEME) south of Nui Dat. The Centurion tank (righ
