The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Engineers of 1st Australian Task Force are knocking down hundreds of acres of jungle which form a natural hideout for a Viet Cong engineer unit operating in Phuoc Tuy Province. Using four D8 bulldozers, sappers of 17th Construction Squadron Land Clearing Team, have so far cleared 200 acres, about eight miles north west of Nui Dat. In all they will clear more than 2000 acres. The area is known to have harboured K76 Engineer Battalion, but by cutting deep trails through the jungle, the sappers hope to deny the enemy future concealment in the area. Providing protection for the land clearing team are infantrymen of the Anzac Battalion, supported by Centurion tanks and armoured personnel carriers. Their presence has been needed, for in the last two weeks Australian soldiers have killed at least 20 Viet Cong in the area. As an unplanned bonus, the land is providing the civilian population nearby with valuable stands of easily recoverable timber and firewood, and in some areas new land for cultivation.
Since August 1, Operation Lyrebird has been underway in thick scrub and rain forest at the base of the Nui Thi, Nui Dinh and Nui Thi Vai hills in the west of Phuoc Tuy Province. In the operation the A
A D8 BULLDOZER, JUST VISIBLE, CLEARING SCRUB IN THE THICK JUNGLE DURING AN OPERATION BY A MINE CLEARING TEAM, 1ST FIELD SQUADRON, PLANT TROOP, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS. LAND CLEARING WAS CARRIED OUT
At the foot of the rugged Long Hai Hills in Vietnam's Phuoc Tuy Province, a team of Australian engineers is cutting a swathe through heavy jungle in an attempt to curb Viet Cong movement in the area.
US Army engineers have joined with Australian infantry in an operation in the north of Phuoc Tuy Province to flatten thousands of acres of jungle to stop the enemy using it as supply and operational r
Machine gunner Private Pat Page, 21, from Strathmore, Vic, stands guard as D8 bulldozers and Centurion tanks work on a jungle clearing operation in the north west of Phuoc Tuy Province, designed to de
With an arsenal of weapons between them, these three soldiers of A Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), stand guard on the site of land clearing operations in a thick jungle
