The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Loaded and ready to fire with a belt of ammunition, a 7.62mm GPMG M60 machine gun points outward from between sandbags at a defensive post of B Company, 2RAR/NZ, on the perimeter of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base. The weapon looks out to barbed wire fences and young, sparsely-planted rubber trees, with an open area beyond them in the background.
Sheltered from sun and rain by a tarpaulin awning, a member of 5 Platoon, B Company, 2RAR/NZ, who is possibly 2785630 Private Robert Thomas Frederick Wickes, sits in a folding picnic chair as he mans
A member of 5 Platoon, B Company, 2RAR/NZ, mans a defensive post heavily protected by sandbags near the company's lines on the perimeter of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base. The post is armed
South Vietnam. 1967. Digger feeding ammunition belt into a 7.62mm GPMG M60 machine gun positioned on top of sandbags.
South Vietnam. 1967. Digger examining the ammunition belt of a 7.62mm GPMG M60 machine gun positioned on top of sandbags.
As 6410242 Temporary Corporal Robin Stanley Harris watches on (left), 3789132 Private Robert Norman Devers of 5 Platoon, B Company, 2RAR/NZ, lies on the ground and fires a 7.62mm GPMG M60 machine gun
An aluminium building that houses the Regimental Aid Post (RAP) for 2RAR/NZ stands among planted palms and rubber trees at the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base. A sign at the front of the buildin
