The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Located west of National Route Two, Fire Support Base (FSB) Wattle was set in the Courtenay Rubber Planation, 25 km north north west of Nui Dat. A helicopter landing pad (lower right) is marked out in this jungle clearing. A Boeing Vertol CH-47 Chinook helicopter (centre) hovers above earthworks, an artillery piece, possibly a M-108 105 mm light howitzer, is suspended from its sling. A soldier below directs this evolution amid identification smoke whose coded colour confirms a current secure landing area. Another Chinook is also on an approach path (right background). Several similar guns (right) are also being prepared for final removal by helicopter as soldiers prepare to abandon the base. Temporarily the home of 161 Battery, Royal New Zealand Army, FSB Wattle was occupied by their gunners from March to September 1969 and this photograph records its evacuation.
Located west of National Route Two, Fire Support Base (FSB) Wattle was set in the Courtenay Rubber Planation, 25 km north north west of Nui Dat. A helicopter landing pad (foreground) is marked out in
Located west of National Route Two, Fire Support Base (FSB) Wattle was set in the Courtenay Rubber Planation, 25 km north north west of Nui Dat. A burn off to clear foliage is under way as grey smoke
A US Army Boeing-Vertol CH-47 Chinook helicopter delivering an M2A2 105 mm howitzer to 102 Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery at Fire Support Base Coral, which is just being established.
A BOEING/VERTOL CH-47C "CHINOOK" MEDIUM- LIFT HELICOPTER BEING FLOWN BY WING COMMANDER J.H. COX, COMMANDING OFFICER NO 12 (CHINOOK) SQUADRON. DURING A HANDLING DEMONSTRATION AT RAAF BASE AMBERLEY. IN
A US Army Boeing-Vertol CH-47 Chinook helicopter delivering stores to 102 Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery, at Fire Support Base Coral, which is just being established. Purple smoke indicates
Recovering a Bell Iroquois UH-1H helicopter serial number A2-769 of 9 Squadron RAAF following a forced landing after engine failure, six kilometres west of Ap Suoi Nghe (background left). Purple smok
