The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Aerial view of Lai Khe, South Vietnam. The runway was made of aluminium matting. The area around the base had been cleared for miles by large bulldozers (roam ploughs) to deny the enemy cover. Lai Khe was the headquarters of the US 1st Infantry Division and where a few Australian forward air controllers (FACs) were based.
Aerial view from a Cessna O-1 'bird dog' forward air controller (FAC) aircraft out of Dong Tam giving road convoy cover.
The runway at Dong Tam. The bridge in the middle ground over the ditch along the edge of the runway was built by US Army engineers to allow the Cessna O-1's to take off. Flare pots marking the runway
Aerial view. A 500lb bomb blast moves the smoke from a forward air controller's target marking rocket, at detonation.
Aerial view of the US 1st Brigade, 9th Infantry Division area of operation known as the 'Fish Hook'. An F-100 Super Sabre aircraft has released a canister (CBU) of tiny bomblets of CS gas before an as
Aerial view of flat terrain showing smoke from target marking rocket adjacent to the canal, taken from a Cessna O-1 'bird dog' forward air controller (FAC) aircraft. Smoke from other bombs still linge
Aerial view of a napalm bomb exploding, adjacent to the smoke from a target marking rocket.
