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In Vietnam last week the enemy effort in Phuoc Tuy Province received a major set-back when an Australian infantry company discovered a cache of about three tons of mines and grenades and numerous weapons and mortars. It was the largest explosives and weapons cache found in Phuoc Tuy Province - the area of responsibility specially allotted to the Australian Task Force. The cache was found in the May Tao mountains in the north-east of the province by Delta Company of the ANZAC unit, a combined Australian and New Zealand Battalion. The 6th Battalion moved into the area about a week before the find, the first time the Australians had been in the area for a year. The explosives and weapons were found in a cave while Delta Company was searching for two major hospital complexes believed to be in the area. Company members moved the explosives out of the cache to a nearby bomb crater for destruction. In the cache were 22 anti-tank mines, 2,500 anti-personnel stick mines, 90 anti-tank stick grenades, a 74 millimetre recoiless rifle, 60 millimetre mortar, 22 boxes of anti-shipping mines, seven telephones, burp guns, rifles and other smaller items. The find was later destroyed by explosives brought in by the Company. Also identified: Pl Comdr, Lt Paul Jackson of Shellharbour, NSW; Coy Comdr, Maj Mick Gill of Keperra, Qld; Pl Sgt, Sgt Kevin Donald of Townsville, Qld; L/Cpl Bill Grubb of Lauderdale, Tas; Cpl Brian Mills of Townsville, Qld; Pte Graham Baird of Bayswater, WA; Capt Stewart Grant of Bandiana, Vic; Capt Ted Ellem of Bulleen, Vic.
PHUOC TUY PROVINCE, SOUTH VIETNAM. 1969-12. THE BIGGEST EXPLOSIVES AND WEAPONS CACHE FOUND IN THE PROVINCE DURING THE VIETNAM WAR IS PREPARED FOR DEMOLITION BY THE 1ST AUSTRALIAN TASK FORCE (1ATF) AMM
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 1969-12. Two soldiers examine the largest weapons and explosives cache found in the Province during the Vietnam War. Corporal Brian Mills of Townsville, Qld (left),
Australian infantry this week conquered the highest peak in a mountainous stronghold 25 miles north east of their Nui Dat base. Previous allied attempts to get into the ranges had all been repulsed. T
The seven-week marriage of an Australian infantry company with a Vietnamese battalion ends this week in a five-day operation in the hills north-west of the Task Force base at Nui Dat in Phuoc Tuy Prov
Australian troops this week used a special detector to find more than thirty Viet Cong tunnels and underground hides in an area about two miles south of their Task Force base at Nui Dat in Phuoc Tuy P
Australian Army engineers serving in Vietnam this week took a close look at Communist Viet Cong weapons handed to them for disposal after they had been captured by troops of the 5th Battalion, Royal A
