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Men of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, this week cordoned and searched the hamlet of Phu My, 15 miles north west of the Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat. During a screen of the hamlet's 300 inhabitants nine people were detained, including a suspected Viet Cong platoon commnader, a Viet Cong guerilla and two people who pay taxes to the Viet Cong. The others were two draft dodgers, two civilians with falsified identification papers and one deserter from the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. The battalion, assisted by armoured personnel carriers and Centurion tanks, threw a tight cordon around the village during the night to stop any Viet Cong in the hamlet from fleeing. Elements of the battalion then swept through, ushering all civilians to a screening area where they were all questioned by intelligence officers. They then conducted a house by house search looking for hidden arms and caches of rice, ammunition or other military stores. During this search a dester from the Army of the Republic of Vietnam was found hiding in the thatched roof of a house. He was handed over to the Vietnamese authorities. After they had been screened the people of Phu My were given the opportunity of medical and dental treatment by Australian Army doctors and dentists.
Helicopters...a sure sign in the South Vietnam province of Phuoc Tuy that troops of the 1st Australian Task Force hve begun another operation. This time it was a search of Dat Do, a village of 1600 pe
As the current national elections of South Vietnam draws near, troops of the 1st Australian Task Force this week were "choppered" in aboard Iroquois helicopters to the wealthy fishing village of Phuoc
Soldiers of Australia's 5th Battalion, in South Vietnam last week, carried out a successful cordon and search operation in Phuoc Tuy Province, concentrating on the hamlet of Duc Trung, just north of t
After an all night march through deep jungle, troops of 5th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment, moved into position shortly after dawn to surround a Vietnamese Village. They were acting in co-op
Australian troops recently carried out a day-long cordon and search at Ap Tay, a hamlet of Hoa Long, about 1 mile south of the Task Force base. Acting on intelligence reports, Delta Company, 8RAR, the
During Operation Arunta, an Australian cordon and search of the village of Ngai Giao and other hamlets and villages in the surrounding area, Australian soldiers from 1st Battalion, The Royal Australia
