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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 found near a jungle trail. According to a newspaper report published in the Sydney SUN, on 30 November 1966, these soldiers made contact with a single Viet Cong (VC) fighter, who immediately dropped his weapon (a Mosin Nagant Model 1944 carbine, partly visible, lower left) and ran to detonate an anti personnel mine from a remote location. The photographer Sean Flynn, who was travelling with the Australian patrol, began to photograph the unfolding event when he discovered the mine (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. The Australian patrol group suffered no casualties and are seen here after the contact. They are armed with a variety of weapons, including 5.56 mm M16A1 automatic rifles (right), 7.62 mm M60 general purpose machine guns (left) and M1 .30 calibre carbines (carried by the South Vietnamese guides). Several soldiers also have 100 round belts of linked 7.62 mm ammunition slung across their bodies.
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
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
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
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
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
