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Nolen speaks of booby trap identification and demolition training for members of 1st Australian Task Force; the acquisition of the collection of the Viet Cong booby traps and explosive devices stored at the Task Force base, Nui Dat and used for training purposes; some of the more commonly-used devices; his background and experience in demolitions work.
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Needle pointed panji stakes - primitive, but deadly - were featured in a lecture on captured Viet Cong booby traps given by Sergeant Brett Hogen of Tocumwal, NSW, in training members of his Engineer S
Laing speaks of his background experience and training; survey troop support for 1st Australian Task Force; his surveyors and draftsmen; the hazards faced in setting survey points on operations. A tr
Grant speaks of witnessing the apprehension of a suspected Viet Cong sympathiser by an Australian soldier and his work at Headquarters Australian Force Vietnam. A transcript of this recording may be
Gillman speaks of the establishment of an area of base operations for 1st Australian Task Force (1 ATF) in Phuoc Tuy Province; units that comprise 1 ATF; unit programs in the Province and schemes impl
Elphick and Seiller speak of their roles as Australian advisers Australian Army Training Team Vietnam to the Regional Force company at Binh Ba, some six kilometers north of the 1st Australian Task For
Gillman reports on Operation Puckapunyal, 27-28 April 1967, the first operation for 7th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment (7 RAR) in South Vietnam, supported by 161st Field Battery (NZ), No 2 Sq