The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
With his 5.56 mm M16A1 automatic rifle propped between his knees, an unidentified Australian soldier from 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), inspects a captured 7.92 mm Mosin Nagant Model 1944 carbine. The rifle was captured after contact was made with a single Viet Cong (VC) fighter, who was in the process of placing an anti personnel mine (similar to a claymore) on a jungle trail which was set for remote detonation. The photographer Sean Flynn, who was travelling with the Australian patrol, began to photograph the unfolding event when he discovered the mine (partially visible left, foreground) which was wired and ready to detonate. Flynn shouted "Claymore!" whereupon the patrol leader raced to the mine, ripping out the wiring before the VC could detonate it. Other members of the patrol pursued the fugitive VC into the jungle, where he was shot dead. Once he was spotted by the Australian patrol, he immediately dropped this weapon and ran to detonate the anti personnel mine from a remote location but was shot dead. After the mine was discovered, the patrol leader frantically tore out the wiring
Unidentified members of 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), inspecting a deactivated anti personnel mine (lower left) which was placed near a jungle trail by the Viet Cong (VC). Accor
Unidentified members of 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), on patrol somewhere in Phuoc Tuy Province. Some of the men are inspecting a deactivated anti personnel mine which had been
Unidentified members of 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), and their South Vietnamese guides/interpreters inspecting a deactivated anti personnel mine (visible lower left) which was
Unidentified members of 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), on patrol in Phuoc Tuy Province during Operation Ingham. According to a newspaper report published in the Sydney SUN, on 30
After a brief contact with a single Viet Cong (VC) fighter along a jungle trail in Phuoc Tuy Province during Operation Ingham, an unidentified patrol leader (holding radio handset, left) of 6th Battal
After a brief contact with a single Viet Cong (VC) fighter along a jungle trail in Phuoc Tuy Province, an unidentified patrol leader (holding radio handset, left) of 6th Battalion, The Royal Australia
