The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Looking fed up and dispirited, an elderly Vietnamese woman sits on the back of a Lambretta taxi or 'Lambro' after being forced to leave her home in the village of Hoa Long by B Company, 2RAR/NZ, during a cordon and search as part of Operation Oakleigh. All residents have been moved out of the village to a Screening Centre where they are having their identities checked. Lambretta vehicles have been used to transport old and sick residents to the Screening Centre.
Three members of B Company, 2RAR/NZ, relax beside a road or on a Lambretta taxi or 'Lambro' after their company has completed a cordon and search of the village of Hoa Long as part of Operation Oaklei
Cigarette in hand, 2785630 Private (Pte) Robert Thomas Frederick Wickes of 5 Platoon, B Company, 2RAR/NZ, sits beside a tap and a Lambretta taxi or 'Lambro' (right) in an area of wasteland on the west
29375 Sergeant Carl Edward Dries (centre) and other members of B Company, 2RAR/NZ, move an elderly Vietnamese couple out of their home as they conduct a cordon and search of the village of Hoa Long du
Villagers of Hoa Long make their way across a tract of wasteland on the western outskirts of the village towards a line of Lambretta taxis or 'Lambros' standing on a road (left). B Company, 2RAR/NZ, a
Members of B Company, 2RAR/NZ, chivvy women and children from their homes as they conduct a cordon and search of the village of Hoa Long during Operation Oakleigh. All residents of the village have be
Members of B Company, 2RAR/NZ, and a Vietnamese National Policeman (partly obscured, left) chivvy women carrying children from their homes as they conduct a cordon and search of the village of Hoa Lon
