The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Covers the work of the units supporting the Australian infantry battalions in Vietnam. Shows 105mm Howitzers of the artillery; Centurion tanks and M113 Armoured personnel carriers; Cessna fixed wing spotter aircraft and Sioux observation helicopters marking targets; signallers using various types of communications equipment in the field; the establishment of an artillery Fire Support Base; Bushranger gunships of 9 Squadron RAAF in action firing rockets and machine guns, the work of intelligence units; destruction of Viet Cong tunnels by the engineers; resupply of units in the field; tanks and APCs supporting 5 RAR the battle of Binh Ba; a cordon and search of a Vietnamese village; winning the hearts and minds through the Civic Aid program; road building; repair of a bridge blown up by the Viet Cong.
Sinsebow speaks of the effect of psychological operations on the Vietnamese civilian population and on the Viet Cong; the Vietnamese government’s Chieu Hoi (Open Arms) program; civic action programs d
Australian gunners have proved the versatility of the 105 millimetre pack howitzer in action against the Viet Cong in Viet Nam. Usually the guns are transported into action by vehicle or ferried in by
A further 350 Australian troops comprising armour, artillery, engineers, signals, light aircraft and logistic elements arrived in Vietnam aboard the RAN troop carrier HMAS 'Sydney' to bring the Austra
HUU DUC, SOUTH VIETNAM, 1971-04-02. The swearing in ceremony of Cham members of the rural youth team in Huu Duc. The rural youth team was a project under the Civic Action Project, Winning Hearts and
Australian troops, tanks and armoured personnel carriers swept through Hoa Long village in Phuoc Tuy province this week seeking a group of Viet Cong who entered the village in the early hours of the d
Officers of the 5th Battalion RAR are briefed by their CO, Lieutenant Colonel J A Warr for an operation to cordon and search a village for suspect Viet Cong and their sympathisers. Troops disembark f
