The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Unidentified soldiers of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), check a hut during an operation in a village, probably Lang Phuoc Hoa, near the Rung Sat area. 5RAR is searching for Viet Cong suspects and sympathisers. From 6 to 12 November 1966 5RAR participated in a two sequential operations in the Rung Sat area. The preliminary operation from 6 to 7 November was known to 5RAR as Operation Yass and was later referred to as Phase 1 of Operation Hayman. It involved a cordon and search of Lang Phuoc Hoa village on Route 15 on the edge of the Rung Sat. On 8 November the main stage of Operation Hayman commenced when 5RAR were helicoptered onto Long Son Island in the middle of the Rung Sat. From 8 to 12 November the battalion carried out a search and destroy operation. The Rung Sat is a vast tangle of waterways and mangrove swamps between Vung Tau and Saigon which has long been used by the Viet Cong to infiltrate troops from North Vietnam, food and supplies.
Members of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), move women and children out along a road as they cordon and search a village, probably Lang Phuoc Hoa, near the Rung Sat area. 5RAR
An unidentified soldier of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), escorts two villagers along a road during a cordon and search of Lang Phouc Hoa village on the road to Vung Tau (Rou
An unidentified soldier of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), on patrol during an operation in the Rung Sat area, probably on Long Son Island. 5RAR are searching for Viet Cong su
A large group of villagers watch from a temporary barbed wire compound as members of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), cordon and search a village, probably Lang Phuoc Hoa, near
Soldiers of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), escort three villagers along a road during a cordon and search of a village, probably Lang Phuoc Hoa, near the Rung Sat area. The N
An unidentified soldier of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), holding his 7.62mm L1A1 self loading rifle (SLR), guards a Vietnamese man during a cordon and search of a village, p
