Photos Aussies and Kiwi's in Vietnam

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Looking at "Warburtons" from 17 Construction Sqn, Nui Dat (Australian Base) 1968

 

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Jerry Smith at 1OFP Nui Dat (Australian Base) 1969

 

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US 2/35th Artillery Battalion at Nui Dat. (1968 or 69)

 

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The Living Quarters at 17 Construction Sqn at Nui Dat (Australian Base) 1968

 

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Australian Base at Nui Dat (1968)
Photo from Dick Kennedy. Dick served as a cook at a number of Australian units in Vietnam (Vung Tau & Nui Dat) from 21/5/1968 until 13/3/1969.

 

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Dick Kennedy's Tent 'Sufferer's Paradise' at 17 Construction Sqn, Nui Dat (Australian Base) (1968).

 

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Looking out from ORs Mess at 1OFP Nui Dat (1968 or 69)
Photo from Dick Kennedy. Dick served as a cook at a number of Australian units in Vietnam (Vung Tau & Nui Dat) from 21/5/1968 until 13/3/1969.

 

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Dick Kennedy at 1OFP Nui Dat (Australian Base) 1968 or 69
Photo from Dick Kennedy. Dick served as a cook at a number of Australian units in Vietnam (Vung Tau & Nui Dat) from 21/5/1968 until 13/3/1969.

 

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Big Dick providing us with some quality images.?

 

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At the 1ATF base, walls of sandbags protect the sides of the tent occupied by Lieutenant Adrian Roberts, commander of 3 Troop, 1 Armoured Personnel Carrier (1APC) Squadron, and Second Lieutenant Ian Charles Savage of the same unit, 1966.

Adrian Roberts was the boss man of the APC unit that went out to Delta Company during Long Tan.

Lorrae Desmond

20 years later and a generation of kids will only remember Lorrae as half owner of Fatso the Wombat from A County Practice.

 

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Vietnam War. July 1970. Captain Peter Shilston checks over the radio that a cordon is set up around a Montaguard village in the Central Highlands before sweeping through to search it. Captain Shilston is a member of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) and is with the 2nd Mobile Strike Force which operates out of Pleiku. Photo by Sergeant John Fairley. [AWM FAI/70/0595/VN]

 

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Two Australian SAS Regiment troopers deplaning No 9 Squadron RAAF UH-1H Huey in Vietnam. 1969.

 

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Bien Hoa Province. c 3 December 1968 - 19 February 1969. An Australian Army Centurion Mk V/1 on Operation Goodwood. Photo by Denis Gibbons. [AWM P04655.570]

 

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Bien Hoa Province. c December 1968 - February 1969. Soldiers of 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) on Operation Goodwood.

 

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A Royal Australian Air Force Huey of 9 Squadron hovers over a Centurion tank patrol during the Vietnam War, 1968.

 

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Vietnam War. Bien Hoa Province. June 1965. Sergeant Peter Mackie, serving with the 1st Australian Logistic Support Company, watches intently while Private First Class Tom Hughes, of Michigan, USA, explains the operation of the newly introduced Armalite rifle. PFC Hughes is a soldier of the US 173rd Airborne Brigade. Photo by WO2 Bryan Dunne. [AWM DNE/65/0073/VN]

 

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Vietnam War. June 1970. A digger from 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), keeps watch while on Operation Cung Chung, a reconnaissance-and-ambush mission in Phuoc Tuy Province. [AWM EKN/70/0441/VN]

 

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Hootchie is up, farter is out, no webbing on, it's still daylight. Not sure what is going on there...

 

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Battle of Binh Ba. June 1969. Centurion Mk V/1 tanks from the the 1st Armoured Regiment, and M113 APC's from B Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, move along the main road of Binh Ba past Plantation Gallia. Armour, together with infantry from 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), dislodged the NVA's 1st Battalion, 33rd Regiment and the VC D440 Battalion which had entered the village. Photo by Sergeant Christopher Bellis. [AWM BEL/69/0389/VN]

 

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Nui Dat, Vietnam. 1967-12. 15233 Sergeant Reg Matheson of Hammondville, NSW, a member of 103 Field Battery, 1st Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), with his gun near a sandbagged area at the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base.