Nui Dat, South Vietnam. c. 1 May 1970. Erica Witt, a member of the Sydney, NSW, concert party, ...

Accession Number FAI/70/0264A/VN
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Fairley, John Geoffrey
Date made 1970
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Nui Dat, South Vietnam. c. 1 May 1970. Erica Witt, a member of the Sydney, NSW, concert party, moves in close to sing to a soldier during a concert at 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base. The army sponsored group arrived on 23 April 1970 for a fourteen day entertainment tour of the war zone. Their first concert was for advisers from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) in the northern city of Da Nang on Anzac Day. They then visited servicemen based at Nui Dat, Vung Tau, Phan Rang, and Bearcat.