The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 helicopter, but a novel way of transporting the guns is by armoured personnel carriers of the First Australian Armoured Personnel Carrier Squadron. The guns and the gunners are carried to the artillery location in relative safety where thew howitzers are dragged out and quickly assembled. In a short time they are ready to play their part in lending support by dropping their 33lb projectiles on Viet Cong strongholds. During this action, the gunners of the First Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, were supporting infantrymen of the Fifth Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, in a search and destroy operation in the Phuoc Tuy province.
The South Vietnamese 11th Artillery Battalion, which operates from Quang Tri, about 40 miles from the North Vietnamese border, is the most active Vietnamese artillery unit in the country. The battalio
6th Battalion RAR completed a year of operational duty in Vietnam with a one-day search and destroy patrol by 'B' Company; the company was ferried into the patrol area by armoured personnel carriers o
Armoured Corps soldiers of the 1st Armoured Personnel Carrier Troop moved into the area surounding Baria, in South Vietnam, in support of American troops clearing an area for occupation permanently by
The 1st Australian Task Force based at Nui Dat in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, has probably the greatest firepower back-up ever known to Australian troops fighting overseas. Besides its own bat
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 s
Three miles south of the Australian Task Force base, troops of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, are building a fence which will be a Viet Cong barrier unique in Vietnam. Stretching fo
