The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The entrance to a tunnel in which about thirty Vietnamese women and children took refuge during Operation Crimp, a joint Australian-US operation in Ho Bo Woods, a strongly defended Viet Cong sanctuary four kilometres west of the Iron Triangle. The tunnel entrance was discovered by members of 2 Platoon, A Company, 1RAR, who pulled the women and children out of the tunnel.
Smoke issues from a crater produced when sappers from 3 Field Troop, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), blew up part of a Viet Cong tunnel. It was discovered by members of A Company, 1RAR, during Opera
View from an airborne helicopter of a US Army Bell UH-1B Iroquois ('Huey') chopper which is transporting members of 1RAR from Bao Trai in Hau Nghia Province to Ho Bo Woods, a strongly defended Viet Co
Watched by a Vietnamese villager and his son, members of 2 Platoon, A Company, 1RAR, enjoy an impromptu game of cards on the ground during a break in an operation probably in Binh Duong Province. The
In a simple hut in a rural village, a sapper from 3 Field Troop, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), wears a gas mask or respirator as he stands in the entrance to a Viet Cong tunnel with a canister of
In an airborne US Army Huey helicopter, 1410967 Private (Pte) Kevin Francis Moore from Roma or Dalby in Queensland sits with an arm around his L1A1 Self Loading Rifle (SLR). Pte Moore, a member of 2 P
With a 7.62mm M60 General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) set up in front of them, two unidentified members of 2 Platoon, A Company, 1RAR, sit on a bare patch of ground on the edge of the jungle during Ope