The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Established on Wewak Point, "F" Troop, 52nd Battery, 2/2nd Australian Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, are shown blasting a Japanese position on Cape Moem. One barrage alone sent over 2,000 shells across. Guns are in positions occupied by the enemy only seven days earlier.
Australians are not the only troops in Borneo to receive support from Australian artillery. When this Gurkha patrol moved out to patrol the Sarawak-Kalimantan border, it was accompanied by a Foward O
Australian troops this week repulsed North Vietnamese regular soldiers who attacked the Australian Task Force forward Fire Support Base (FSB) Coral in north west Bien Hoa province, about twenty five m
Aerial view of Fire Support Base (FSB) Maree/Marie, which is being established for operation Ivanhoe (19 September - 2 October 1971), by personnel from 1 Australian Task Force. Freshly turned earth, t
Aerial view of Fire Support Base (FSB) Maree/Marie, which is being established for operation Ivanhoe (19 September - 2 October 1971), by personnel from 1 Australian Task Force. Freshly turned earth, t
An Ottoman artillery gun crew loading a projectile into the breech of a Krupp 355mm L35 artillery gun, mounted on a coastal artillery carriage, set in a well-prepared Ottoman Army gunners loading a sh
“C” Company (Coy) 6 RAR area, Nui Dat 10 January 1967. Shows Coy lines in the rubber plantation. Forward Observation (FO) party accommodation. Coy general area and Landing Zone (LZ). Sentry post and