Photos Aussies and Kiwi's in Vietnam

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Nui Dat, South Vietnam. November 1970. Tons of Christmas mail to be delivered from soldiers in Vietnam keeps Private John Wills, 21, of Maitland, SA, flat out. He is a postal clerk at the Australian Forces Post Office (AFPO) at Nui Dat.

 

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Nui Dat, South Vietnam. 1967-09. An improvised twin .30 calibre machine gun mount. This mount was not adopted for official use.

 

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Nui Dat, South Vietnam. 1967-09. An improvised twin .30 calibre machine gun mount. This mount was not adopted for official use.

 

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Normie Rowe meets the diggers of 1 Troop, B Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment at his new home, 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF), Nui Dat.

 

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Normie Rowe meets the diggers of 1 Troop, B Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment at his new home, 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF), Nui Dat.

 

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Nui Dat, South Vietnam. 1968-05. Dental technician Corporal Denis Ernst, 22, of Ingleburn, NSW, works on a denture in the dental surgery of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), based at Nui Dat.

 

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The South Vietnamese Premier, Air Vice Marshall (AVM) Nguyen Cao Ky, having completed his ‘getting to know you tour’ of the Australian Task Force at Nui Dat, leaves in the VIP Landrover for his helicopter waiting to return him to Saigon.

 

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Activity at a dustoff pad, Nui Dat, as wounded A Company Australian soldiers are unloaded from a No 9 Squadron RAAF helicopter which has winched them out of the jungle.

 

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Nui Dat, South Vietnam. August, 1970. Following in his father's footsteps is Signalman Michael Mazengarb of Hunters Hill, NSW, a draftsman with the 104th Signals Squadron. Michael's father, Major Peter Mazengarb, served at Nui Dat for twelve months in 1967-68.

 

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Nui Dat, South Vietnam. 1969-07. Visiting Senator, Peter Rae, receives a birds-eye view of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) from Dunstan's Lookout on top of Nui Dat. Showing him the sights is the Deputy Commander of 1ATF, Colonel K. S. McKenzie of Newmarket, Qld

 

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Nui Dat, South Vietnam. 1968-11. Private John Las of Ballarat, Vic, takes a plunge into the fabric swimming pool erected at the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) Base at Nui Dat. Private Clive Dreis of Hornsby, NSW, catches a water polo ball that had just been thrown to him. Both are members of the 131st Divisional Locating Battery.

 

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Nui Dat, South Vietnam. 1968-12. Corporal Mario Apfelbaum of Newport, Vic, prepares a silk screen printed cover for the Order of Service to the used on Christmas Day in Catholic chapels at the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) Base at Nui Dat. He is a member of the 1st Topographical Survey Unit based at Nui Dat.

 

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Nui Dat, South Vietnam. 1969-09. 'Sheriff, Nui-Dat, Saloon' the name for one of the many soldiers' boozers at the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) Base. A water buffalo skull is attached to the top of the sign. Many of the signs are often an instant memorial to the modern soldiers' ingenuity. The colourful names are often expressive of the character of the wet canteens.

 

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Nui Dat, South Vietnam. December 1970. One of the Taylor Sisters, Miss Annette Taylor of Russell Lea, NSW, performs on stage at the Luscombe Bowl in Nui Dat. She is singing to a large crowd of Australian soldiers who turned out to see the Lorrae Desmond Sydney Show, which was on tour in the war zone.

 

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Nui Dat, South Vietnam. November 1971. Sergeant Bill Biglands of Townsville, Qld (left), and Gunner David Bourchier of Cheltenham, Vic, both members of 104 Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), despatch one of the last rounds to be fired by Australians from their base at Nui Dat. The last task given to the Battery was a firing mission to cover the extraction of other elements of the Nui Dat Force to Vung Tau

 

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NUI DAT, SOUTH VIETNAM. 1968-03-29. GENERAL CLEARING WORK BEING DONE BY MEMBERS OF 16 CONSTRUCTION SQUADRON, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS (RAE), FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE 1ST ORDNANCE FIELD PARK WITH THE AUSTRALIAN TASK FORCE AT NUI DAT. THE AREA BEING CLEARED AND LEVELLED WILL MAKE WAY FOR A SIXTY FEET BY NINETEEN FEET STORAGE HUT.

 

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Nui Dat, South Vietnam, 1966-12-05. The first Caribou aircraft from No. 35 Squadron RAAF touching down on the newly opened Luscombe Field airstrip at the Australian Task Force Base at Nui Dat. The airstrip was built by 1 Field Squadron Royal Australian Engineers and was named after Temporary Captain Bryan Luscombe, the first Australian Army pilot to die on operational duty, who was killed in Korea.

 

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Nui Dat, Vietnam. 1967-12. US Army Chief of Staff General Harold K. Johnson visited Australian Task Force troops at Nui Dat on Christmas Eve. Representatives from all units formed a guard of honour for the General on the newly opened airstrip. Here General Johnson inspects soldiers of 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR).

 

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Nui Dat, Vietnam. 1967. South Vietnam's Prime Minister, Air Vice Marshal Cao Ky, rides in an Army vehicle during a tour of the 1st Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat. Accompanying the Prime Minister is the Task Force Commander, Brigadier S. C. Graham (left) and the Commander, AAFV, Air Commodore L. Dowling, (at rear, partly obscured).

 

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NUI DAT, SOUTH VIETNAM. 1968-08-13. SIGNALMAN RONALD CLARK OF GOONDIWINDI, QLD, CHECKS A SIGNAL RECEIVED BY TELEPRINTER FROM AUSTRALIA. A MEMBER OF 104 SIGNALS SQUADRON, HE IS BASED AT THE AUSTRALIAN TASK FORCE (ATF) HEADQUARTERS AT NUI DAT.