The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Gillman speaks of an upgrade to newer, more technologically-advanced weapons - the 105mm guns carried in United States Army artillery armoured tracked vehicles and used as a direct-fire weapon in perimeter defence; the 7.62 self-loading rifle (SLR) replacing the .303 rifle; the F1 submachine carbine replacing the Owen gun; the M60 machine gun replacing the Vickers and Bren machine guns; the Colt 9mm pistol replacing the .38mm pistol; the M16 armalite rifle used by forward scouts while on patrol to provide rapid bursts of fire on contact with the enemy; the M79 grenade launcher replacing the old launcher cup for the .303 rifle, the 81mm mortar replacing the 2 and 3 inch mortar; the 50 and 30 calibre machine gun mounted on a vehicle and used in perimeter defence as a spotting gun for anti tank weapons; the 105mm howitzer replacing the 25 pounder; other artillery available to the Task Force including United States army weapons such as the 8 inch, the 175 mm and the 105 mm guns; implications of weapon maintenance for 12 guage single barrel pump-action shotguns.
Gillman reports on the effect of the Vietnamese government’s Chieu Hoi (Open Arms) program on the Vietnamese civilian population in Phuoc Tuy Province; Viet Cong defectors at the Ba Ria Open Arms Cent
Gillman reports on Australian War Memorial official artist Lieutenant Bruce Edward Fletcher who, although being wounded by a stray Viet Cong rifle shot after only 50 hours in Phuoc Tuy Province, staye
Gillman reports on the orientation and acclimatisation of 2nd Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment on its arrival in South Vietnam and a patrol, led by Lieutenant Eric Charles Pearson from Albany,
Gillman reports on a 'Little Tasmania' at Headquarters 1st Australian Task Force,so identified because five of the six clerks that make up the staff of the Registry are National Servicemen from Tasman
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
Gillman reports on the work of the resident civil affairs worker Lance Bombadier Robert Graeme Nicholson 108th Field Battery in 1967 at Binh Gia and Hoa Long, Phuoc Tuy Province.