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Fire Support Base Coral, Bien Hoa Province, Vietnam, 15 May 1968. Members of the No. 6 gun crew of 102 Field Battery, 12th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), stand to at Fire Support Base (FSB) Coral. The soldiers are armed and watching out for enemy movement beyond the perimeter of the FSB. This position was temporarily overrun on the night of 12/13 May 1968 by troops of the North Vietnamese Army's (NVA) 7th Division and the 105mm howitzer was seriously damaged by a satchel charge and was withdrawn for repair. In the right foreground, two soldiers are sitting inside the partly constructed machine gun bunker, a timber structure that was sited directly in front of the crew's 105mm howitzer in order to protect it against enemy attack. In the background at left, two soldiers watch out from the protective bund or earthen embankment that surrounds the gun position.
Fire Support Base Coral, Bien Hoa Province, Vietnam, c. June 1968. Gun position for the No. 6 gun of 102 Field Battery, 12th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), some three weeks after th
Fire Support Base Coral, Bien Hoa Province, Vietnam, c. June 1968. Some three weeks after the attacks on Fire Support Base (FSB) Coral by troops of the North Vietnamese Army's (NVA) 7th Diciaion. A me
Fire Support Base Coral, Bien Hoa Province, Vietnam. 13 May 1968. Members of 102 Field Battery, 12th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), with the Battery's No. 6 gun, a 105mm M2A2 howitz
Fire Support Base Coral, Bien Hoa Province, Vietnam, 13 May 1968. The dead bodies of several North Vietnamese Army (NVA) soldiers lying on the ground in front of the gun position of No. 6 gun, 102 Fie
Fire Support Base Coral, Bien Hoa Province, Vietnam, 13 May 1968. A member of 102 Field Battery, 12th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), standing on a patch of disturbed earth that mark
Fire Support Base Coral, Bien Hoa Province, Vietnam, 13 May 1968. General view of Fire Support Base (FSB) Coral in the early morning, following a series of attacks the previous night by troops of the
