The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Olive green cotton long sleeved Viet Cong shirt with brown plastic buttons. Seams top stitched in khaki cotton with two button flap pleated breast pockets. Both sleeve cuff buttons are missing.
Part of a collection of Viet Cong clothing and equipment captured at 1000 hours on 17 April 1969 by an Australian Task Force patrol. This material appears to have been gathered by a (New Zealand) patrol of 3 Squadron, Special Air Service Regiment. The patrol, operating in the Binh Ba area between 15 and 23 April, consisted of Sergeant W J Lillicrapp and Lance Corporals R T Williams, K Herewini, D A Pewhaiangi and P Wanoa. At 0925 on the 17th, the patrol entered an old Viet Cong campsite, and material was found strewn around the area. Fifteen minutes later, two Viet Cong were encountered and killed. Other material collected in this action is known to have included a pistol and two pounds of documents, none of which came to the Australian War Memorial.
Long sleeved green cotton shirt of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN). The shirt has a fold down collar, black buttoned front and cuffs. The shirt has two breast pockets which are pleated and button
Viet Cong olive green cotton full length trousers with pleats at front and rear. There are two side pockets and one on the righthand side of the seat. The lower seam of the right hand side pocket is c
Long sleeved grey cotton shirt as worn by Viet Cong Main Force units. The shirt is fastened with green plastic buttons and the seams are top-stitched in green. The front of the shirt has two pleated p
Viet Cong Main Force pale grey cotton long sleeved shirt with brown plastic buttons. Seams top stitched in white cotton with two button flap pleated breast pockets. Remnants of small white fabric labe
Fawm cotton trousers of the National Liberation Front (Viet Cong). The trousers have slash style side pockets, a concealed button fly closure and five belt loops. Part of a collection of Viet Cong c
Viet Cong long sleeved grey cotton shirt as worn by Local Force units. The shirt has green topstitching and green buttons down the front and at the cuffs. The shirt also has pleated breast pockets wit
