The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
At fire support base Julia in Phuoc Tuy Province, Xmas dinner for the Australian soldiers was rudely interrupted when Viet Cong fired a rocket at a US vehicle travelling along Route 15 about one mile from the base. Within minutes dinner was forgotten as tanks of C Squadron 1st Armoured Regiment, armoured personnel carriers of A Squadron 3rd Cavalry Regiment and infantry soldiers of the Task Force Headquarters defence platoon scrambled to respond to the attack. Because of the action of the Viet Cong, civilian traffic was held up on both sides of the danger area and one of the tasks of the Australian force was to secure both sides of the road and clear any enemy from the area. With spotter aircraft overhead, the armoured column passed the damaged US jeep with its slightly injured driver and swept across open country in its search for any enemy. As the aircraft sighted movement in the dense scrub to the front of the armoured personnel carriers, the area was engaged with fire from the vehicles. A subsequent sweep of the area by the infantry located tracks of a small group of enemy who apparently fled immediately after they had fired upon the US vehicle. Nothing further was found. With the road once again secure, the Australians returned to Julia to their interrupted Xmas dinner.
A daily chore for sappers of the Australian Task Force in Vietnam is searching for land mines along a two mile length of main road which runs through the base area. At dawn, a Land Rover guarded by th
During a reconnaissance along Route 328 in the Thua Tich area, north-east of Nui Dat, an armoured personnel carrier of A Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, detonated an enemy mine. The armoured personnel
Australian troops in Vietnam last week battled with more than one hundred Viet Cong who attempted to take over the village of Long Dien, about ten miles south of the Task Force base at Nui Dat. The at
The 106th Field Workshops, based at Nui Dat, is equipped with an armoured personnel carrier fitted with a crane, which is driven into combat areas to repair damaged carriers and tanks on the spot. Dur
The Battle for Manifold, a "Queensland Cong" stronghold was the climax this week of Exercise "Barra Winga", which has just ended in the Army's Shoalwater Bay training area in Queensland. It was a batt
Early morning in Vietnam finds Australian soldiers ready for another day's work as infantrymen of the First Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment board carriers of the 1st Australian Armoured Person
