The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
View of a Bowen bunker at C Company, 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (4RAR), forward base at Bokah. These bunkers were designed to accommodate a section of nine infantry men and if necessary the men could live inside these bunkers and defend the base. Each Bowen bunker is heavily sandbagged and has large timber posts fitted inside to support the roof. A network of Bowen bunkers ring the base at Bokah and each one is designed to support it's neighbouring bunker with small arms fire if necessary. The Bowen bunkers were unpopular with the soldiers because they were damp, smelt bad and were often infested with rats which attracted the attention of snakes such as venomous cobras and large pythons.
View of a Bowen bunker (left) at C Company, 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (4RAR), forward base at Bokah. These bunkers were designed to accommodate a section of nine infantry men and if
A sandbagged bunker, machine gun post and timber observation tower at the C Company, 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (4RAR), forward base at Bokah. This area of the base was manned by men
A machine gun post sited to cover likely enemy approaches at the C Company forward base at Bokah, located about 35 kilometres from the 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (4RAR) headquarters
Unidentified men of 9 Platoon, C Company, 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (4RAR), wait to board a RAF Whirlwind helicopter that is landing on the helipad at the company forward base at Bo
1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, recently completed Exercise Short Gallop in Eastern Malaya - the first major warm-up by Australian, British and New Zealand soldiers in preparation for th
A United States Army Bell AH-1G Huey Cobra gunship and Chinook helicopter parked at a base in Vietnam. The AH-1 Cobras were used by the United States Army during the Tet offensive in 1968 and through
