The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vietnamese families who work the fields around Bu Dop live in a small village about 100 yards from the fort. The fort is a heavily fortified United States (US) Special Forces (Green Beret) camp, manned by South Vietnamese troops with their US advisors. The fort is about 165 miles north of the RAAF Base at Vung Tau and two miles from the Cambodia-Vietnam border. Children play outside the gate of the village as a farmer drives his oxcart into the fields. The sign over the gate says that the village is a “new life village” and is part of the Vietnamese Government’s rural reconstruction scheme. It aims to resettle the farmers in secure areas where they are safe from Viet Cong (VC) terrorism.
An RAAF Iroquois helicopter crewman has his M60 machine gun cocked and ready as the helicopter swoops low over the fortified village of Bu Dop, two miles from the Cambodia-Vietnam border. The rectang
RAAF helicopter pilots, 37576 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Robert Andrew (Bob) MacIntosh, of Ainslie, ACT, (left) and 23446 Flt Lt Leigh Oxley ‘Laddie’ Hindley, of Goulburn, NSW, (right) study a map of
A Vietnamese loading team supervised by a United States (US) army fork lift operator and a RAAF loadmaster, load cows into a No 35 Squadron, Caribou aircraft at Nha Trang Air Base. The cows were take
A Vietnamese loading team supervised by a United States (US) army fork lift operator and a RAAF loadmaster, load cows into a No 35 Squadron, Caribou aircraft at Nha Trang Air Base. The cows were take
Vietnam. 1967-09. An interpreter aids Regimental Sergeant Major Larry Moon of Gaythorne, Qld, and 2RAR /NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and a co
Phuoc Hai, Vietnam. 26 August 1967. Vietnamese women and children wait outside the village gate for troops from the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) to move on. The troops had just alighted from US Ar
