The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Above film was shot on Operation Track Duster, an armoured/infantry operation near Thai Thien, 15 miles north west of Nui Dat, as APCs and Centurion tanks moved into a night ambush position along a waterway in Phuoc Tuy province. Ambush was not sprung during the night but film could be used as stock film of tanks/APCs in Vietnam. Operation is Track Duster - during which more than 40 ton of rice has been captured in the past week. (Also identified: Captain Bill Regtop of Perth, WA, crew commander; Craftsman Andy Ross of Geelong, Vic, tank driver.)
This film shot as part of requirement required in DPR Sig 16902. In this film the tanks of "B" Squadron 1st Armoured Regiment were operating in support of infantry but no infantry appears because the
Fifty-ton Centurion tanks, armoured personnel carriers and a company of infantry soldiers, moved into the Long Hai hills in the south-east of Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam, this week for the first time
Australian armour and infantry this week seized a further 12 tons of rice during continued operations in a known enemy supply base, 15 miles north west of the 1st Australian Task Force base, Nui Dat i
Twenty eight Centurion tanks and variants are on their way home following three-and-a-half years service in total by them and their predecessors in South Vietnam. The 52-ton tanks are bound for 1 Cent
More than 100 potential Citizen Military Force officers were amongst a big crowd of servicemen who watched Regular Army infantrymen in a demonstration with tanks at Puckapunyal Victoria this week. Th
The tanks went to Vietnam in a cloud of public apprehension, but soon proved their worth. The Task Force Commander, Brigadier Pearson said before he left South Vietnam just recently that the Centurion
